Deleting old archivelogs

Hi,
Can anybody provide me a shell script which can delete 1 week old archivelogs?
Note : I am not using RMAN.
Thanks in advance...

version 10g
flashback on
archiving is maintain in flashback area
i see in alert.log that the warning about space.
i delete archive logs in flashback area manually.
but problem exists .
because it is test environment .i off the flashback and disable archiving.
i check V$FLASH_RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE it is still showing near 100% usage in which archiving file use nearly 84% while i delete all archive files manually.
Now i again want to enable archiving.
Extract from alert.log
ORACLE Instance orcl - Archival Error
Mon Jan 29 05:59:50 2007
ORA-16014: log 3 sequence# 160 not archived, no available destinations
ORA-00312: online log 3 thread 1: '/u/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/redo03.log'

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