Summary: Deleting files that are older than a week

Dear managers,

thanks a lot for your responses. Most of you suggested to do something 
like

find /some/dir -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \;

which works great.

Thanks,

    Andreas

> sorry if this is an off topic question. How can I remove all files/dirs
> in a directory that are older than a week. I have setup cron to make a
> database backup every night. Now I want to automatically delete (cron
> script) all backup files that are older than a week, thus always keeping
> the latest 7 backup files. I looked into the man page of rm but found
> nothing. Where do I have to look? An example would be even better.
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