bash script to determine the age of a file

hi @ all!

here's the problem: our mailserver needs cleanup, he uses qmail and virtual hosts. the mails are stored in folder tree like that:

/home/virthosts/foo_host/foo_user@foo_host/cur/foo_mail

now every mail is stored on the server and the folders get stuffed with rubbish nobody needs any more. so i got the job to write a bash script to delete mails, that are older than 30 days to include into the cron-job. this scipt is working well, it enters the directories right and deletes the files, but:

i wasn't able to find out how to determine the age of a file so the script deletes only the right files!

anybody any idea?

regards, thedarkzone

Have a look at the "find" command. ("man find")

It can find files that are older than a given date. One comment: Don´t pass it´s output to "xargs" because on some systems it does not escape spaces in filenames. use the "-exec" switch or directly "-delete" instead.