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Aug 12, 2004, 5:47 AM

mkoenig

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Aug 12, 2004, 5:47 AM

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Delete old files

Hi everybody

I am looking for a script that can delete my old linkfiles in Linkssql
i don't kwow if this is possible with a cgi script

in the moment i use the shell command find
find (Path1 of my server) -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
find (Path2 of my server) -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
find (Path3 of my server) -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;

I there a possibilty to use the find command in a cgi script?

The other problem is that you can not exclude a folder like cgi-bin or image with the find command Mad

if i use the command it delete all my files older than 10 days Pirate

i want to use the script or command in a crontab

please help me

Marina Sly

Aug 12, 2004, 6:16 AM

Andy

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Aug 12, 2004, 6:16 AM

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Re: [mkoenig] Delete old files In reply to

Try making a script, and putting something like this in it;

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict; 

my $command1 = q|find /path/to/server -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;|;  
my $command2 = q|find /path/to/server -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;|;  
my $command3 = q|find /path/to/server -mtime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;|;  

system($command1); 
system($command2); 
system($command3); 

print "\n\nDONE";

Then, just run it via SSH, by typing;

perl /full/path/to/script/admin/script_name.cgi

Hope that helps.

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Aug 12, 2004, 8:19 AM

mkoenig

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Aug 12, 2004, 8:19 AM

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Great

Thank you very much andy

Marina Sly