Re: Petal temp files

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:30:07PM +0000, Chris Croome wrote:
> I'm in process of deleting 420095 /tmp/petal_* off a server and it's not
> so easy to do when you have more files than you shell can cope with (I
> had to find the files, write the results to a file and trun that into a
> deletion script).

Yeah, I've run into this problem also. Seems like I found a way around
the shell globbing limitations but don't recall now as I don't need it
(see below).


> What do other people do, have cron jobs that delete the old ones once a
> week or something?

Nightly!


William

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