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I know a command to do the same with files, but what about folders (and all the files in it of course)?

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The command you refer is find I suppose.

You should use the command -exec rm -r {} \; and add the -depth option.

The -r option to rm remove directories with all the content.
The -depth option tell find to elaborate content of folders before the folder itself.

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That's almost perfect, thanks. Is there a way so it doesn't delete the actual folder I'm searching in? So only folders within the folder get deleted? I'm currently doing "find "/home/user/folder/" -mtime +7 -exec rm -r {} \;", but it deleted the folder called "folder" as well if the time matches. I only want subfolders deleted older than 7 days. – nLinked Dec 10 '11 at 19:24
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Solved using: rm -rf "/target/directory with spaces/"* – nLinked Dec 10 '11 at 20:12

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