clean video download directory on linux by deleting all videos older that a number of days.

clean-videos.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the user provided the number of days
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <days> [directory]"
  echo "Example: $0 5 /path/to/videos"
  exit 1
fi

# Get number of days from the first argument
DAYS="$1"

# Get directory from the second argument or use current directory
TARGET_DIR="${2:-.}"

# Delete .mkv and .mp4 files older than specified number of days
find "$TARGET_DIR" -type f \( -iname "*.mkv" -o -iname "*.mp4" \) -mtime +$DAYS -exec rm -f {} \;

echo "Deleted .mkv and .mp4 files older than $DAYS days from $TARGET_DIR"