Clean up your Downloads folder with cron

I posted before about the beauty of an empty Downloads folder. Here’s a cron task you can drop in or alter so you don’t have to install something like Hazel:

# Move Downloads that are more than one week old to trash
0 * * * * find ~/Downloads/* -mtime +7 -exec mv {} ~/.Trash \;

Tweak it as needed to save/move stuff you want to keep or to clear your Desktop too, etc.