hello
i need a script that delete all files in a specific directory every 3 hours

thnx & best regards

Sounds good ... what have you tried?

I guess you need a crontab entry, not really a script. Please, provide more details.

Hello,

As far as running it every three hours, you can use cron for that. I highly suggest you read the man page and search around on how to use cron, as it is all over the internet. As far as your script, using basic linux commands, you can rm files as such:
Of course, you would put that in a script.

Cheers,

Josh

I agree, cron would be the standard (and probably best) way.

One alternative might be the watch command, like

watch -n 10800 rm /foo/bar/*

you will be better off creating a script that is run by cron every 3 hours.

firstly create your script, i choose root's own home folder (remember to back it up)
and set permissions to enable execution
the commands below are done as 'root' to ensure that files can be deleted (remember that these commands will run as root so it can cause damage if you do not know what/when you are deleting)
then add the command required to be run.
when you say 'delete all files'

do you want to leave the directory structure intact?

if you want to keep the structure, you can amend this code snippet:
http://www.brainpowered.net/cms/cont...l-bash-snipets

into something like this:
or, if you just want to delete everything in that folder
note the '/*'
that will preserve your folder but delete everything inside it.

so your script has something like:
then create a crontab entry to run this script whenever you wish, see:
http://crontab.org/
http://corenominal.org/howto-setup-a-crontab-file/

if you find confusing to setup crontab (i do) look at something like this:
http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui

you can just as well replace the path to your script with the actual command - but having the command outside the crontab gives you more flexibility - in my humble opnion.

hope this helps

thnx alot for ur effort