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xombboxer 02-25-2015 04:28 AM
Is it food have find command running in cron every day once to delete older files
 
I need to clean-up some folder. I have a cron job which uses find command to find and delete 25 days older file.

Code:

find $FOLDER_PATH/$FOLDER -depth -regex  ^$FOLDER_PATH/$FOLDER/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ -type d -mtime +25  -exec ls -ld {} \;  >> /tmp/deleted_folders.log
When this running it occupies 1-3% of cpu. And it may take longer time based on the folder size.

Is it ok to have find command running as cron job ?

jpollard 02-25-2015 05:25 AM
nothing wrong with it

unSpawn 02-25-2015 08:25 AM
Nothing wrong with that cron job except for a whiff of wheel reinvention aka NIH syndrome.
Also see 'tmpwatch'.

jpollard 02-25-2015 05:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by unSpawn (Post 5323109)
Nothing wrong with that cron job except for a whiff of wheel reinvention aka NIH syndrome.
Also see 'tmpwatch'.
Well, it could also be said that tmpwatch was a NIH reinvention - as find was done first. :)

xombboxer 02-26-2015 12:15 AM
Thanks guys, Got to know 2 new stuff


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