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Clear archives or any other file using crontab

There are lots of logs created in a system and like cleaning the house over the weekend you also need to keep the system clean. Sometimes this can free up quite a bit of space in the storage. crontab is my preferred method of doing this sort of scheduled cleanup although it can be niggly at times.

# Minute  Hour    Day of Month   Month    Day of Week   Command
# (0-59)  (0-23)  (1-31)         (1-12)   (0-6)

30   11   *   *   6   find /u01/archive/*.dbf -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

So this means that I want the script to run once a week on a Saturday as 11:30 in the morning. It will find all the archives (*.dbf) that are older that 7 days and remove them. Really powerful so you also need to becareful how to use this command.
Great information of the power of crontab

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