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dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

automatic remove of older files

Hi!

I don't know programing, so here i'm asking for help :-P

What i'd like is a script, running regularly via cron. That script would look for files older than X days in a directory Y, and remove them.

Any help?

Thanks!!

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: automatic remove of older files

find /path -ctime +nr_of_days -exec rm {} \;

dienadel

Member

Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: automatic remove of older files

Thanks for the quick answer! I'll try it :-)