purging a set of files



hi frineds,
i want to delete a set of files which are older than 7 days from teh current date.i am totally enw to shell scripting, can anyone help me with a sample code to list out the files which are older and then remove them from the directory.


please help
thanks

code:

find /path/to/files -type f  -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

to be sure you are getting what you think, run this first to check:


code:

find /path/to/files -type f  -mtime +7 -exec ls -l  {} \;

see if this works for you:

code: