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Need to schedule Linux script to remove directories and their contents

Hi,

I am looking for a script that I can schedule on a SuSE Linux Enterprise server that will run on a daily basis at 1am. I need it to look in a certain directory for directories with folder named with the date of 90 days old or older and delete them along with their contents.

This is for a Squid box. Every month or so, I go and delete daily logs that are older than 3 months. Im looking to automate this. Right now, I ssh into the box, and run the following command to remove all directories from the Month of February.

rm -rf /proxy/www/Daily/2013Feb*

If this was vbscript, it would take me a few minutes, but im not so good with linux scripting.

If someone could also tell me how exactly to schedule the job, that would be great.

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arnold

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TakedaT

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Thanks Arnold. The command looks like it will work perfectly without the -exec part. But I am having some trouble adding it to cron. I logged in as root and typed 'vi crontab'. Then I pasted your code in there and it never ran. I have never used cron before, can you give me some more detail how to add it?

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