# email backup, done in ~/Maildir for file in `find . -name "cur" -type d` do find $file -mtime +30 >> oldfiles.txt find $file -mtime +30 | xargs rm done tar -cf `date '+%M%y'`.tar -I oldfiles.txt bzip2 `date '+%M%y'`.tar rm `date '+%M%y'`.tar` oldfiles.txt