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How to remove files after 6 hours
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Name: codunix
Date: August 19, 2005 at 13:50:14 Pacific
Subject: How to remove files after 6 hoursOS: HP-UXCPU/Ram: 2 Gig |
Comment: Is there any way/script to find and remove the files which are older than 6 hours, since the files are generated at frequent intervals. These files grow at a rapid rate and fills up the disk quickly. Appreciate your response. Thanks
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Response Number 1
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Name: David Perry
Date: August 22, 2005 at 11:36:55 Pacific
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Reply: Run this every 6 hours from cron. if [ -a /tmp/timestamp ] ; then find /full/path/to/tmp/directory -type f -newer /tmp/timestamp -exec rm -f {} \; fi touch /tmp/timestamp
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Name: David Perry
Date: August 23, 2005 at 07:21:22 Pacific
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Reply: The script is not dependent on the content of /tmp/timestamp. The touch command will either create an empty file or update the timestamp of a file based on date time information used. man touch The -newer flag for find says to find files newer that some file. man find
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