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[Help] Cron to delete aged files?
| Posted by kohkindachi, 01-08-2010, 10:04 PM |
| I'm looking for a cron to automatically delete files which is like 3 hours after last modified, excluding htaccess and index.php.
any help?
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 01-09-2010, 03:20 AM |
| are the files randomly generated ? . In case of which you can have more effective solutions.
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| Posted by Dr:linux, 01-10-2010, 04:50 AM |
| Setting cronjob is the best option in Linux commands. Using shell scripts can make more damage and would erase your entire file system.
find /yourdir/tmp -mtime -exec rm {} \;
Filemtime shows you the modified time and unlink the ones that are older than 3 hours using date,month or anything else. Just use ls -l instead of rm to check whether the correct files are getting deleted.
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| Posted by LeaTrueman, 01-10-2010, 07:11 AM |
| try using -mmin instead of -mtime.
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| Posted by mattle, 01-11-2010, 12:45 PM |
| I'd opt for something a little more sophisticated so that you don't blow away important files:
(untested)
Or, you may want to filter the files earlier:
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