Delete old files and folders Script?
 

Hi LQ,

I need a small script to delete files and folders if they are older than 3 months. I can't seem to find any script that can do this?
And it would be sweet if it would maked a small log of what was deleted!

Thanks..

/Jesper

Re: Delete old files and folders Script?
 

you really need to learn $BASH scripting and write your own...................

Re: Re: Delete old files and folders Script?
 

I guess so :( No help from you!


/Jesper

Try the find command.

I believe you could use the -mtime flag to get what you are looking for.

Check out tmpwatch. I believe it is pretty standard on most distributions.

NAME
tmpwatch - removes files which haven?t been accessed for a period of
time

SYNOPSIS
tmpwatch [-u|-m|-c] [-faqstv] [--verbose] [--force] [--all] [--test]
[--fuser ] [--atime|--mtime|--ctime] [--quiet] <hours>
<dirs>

I run it every night using cron to keep my scratch partition clean.

Gerald