hi,

i am trying to develop a script that deletes images after a week of being stored on the computer.

i have a script that takes images from a camera when movement occurs, and then renames images with the date and time, and finally stores the images meta information inside a database.

what i would like is a script that would deleted the images that are more than 1 week old, lets say.

any help appreciated,


cheers,
Mel

you can use the 'find' utility to provide a listing of files that have a modified date older than a week and then feed those filenames to an 'rm' command.

hope that helps,
jpbarto

To be specific:

If your files are in directory /tmp/images, then your find command will be something like...

find /tmp/images -type f -mtime +4 -exec rm {} \; -print

This tells find to look in /tmp/images for files which are more than 4 days old. For each such file, it executes the "rm" command, with the matching file substituted for {}. The backslash-semicolon is required as the end of the command to execute. The -print flag tells it to print the name of all the matching files, you can omit that if you want, but it;s good for when you're testing.