How do I setup a cronjob to auto-delete files in a directory?

I'm looking to setup a cronjob in order to automatically delete files within a certain directory 24 hours after it's been uploaded. I've seen some tutorials on this, but I'm misunderstanding what they're saying and I don't want to mess anything up.

Here is what I'm seeing:



In order to delete a file that's been created 24 hours ago, what should the time settings be? I believe this is the command that I should put, but can someone verify this please?

find /path/to/files -mtime +1 -exec rm  {}\;

Code (markup):

Thank you!

- Nate

 

You can use php to do this

<?php

$files = glob("/directory/you/want/to/delete/files/in/*.*");

foreach($files as $file) unlink($file);

?>

Code (markup):

save above as cron.php and modify directory.

and in crontab

0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /diretcory/where/your/cron.php

minute = 0

hour = 0
day = *
month=*
weekday=*

This will run everyday at midnight.

 

Thanks "st1905" for the reply.

It's just that I need the file to delete exactly (or slightly around) 24 hours after it was uploaded. For instance, if a file is uploaded at 7:30PM a certain day, I want it deleted the next day at 7:30PM. I'm not sure if I can achieve that with a cronjob, though.