Re: Petal temp files

Chris Croome <chris-u/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.petal
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

On Tue 15-Feb-2005 at 08:31:13PM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
> 
> ls /tmp/petal_* | xargs rm

Tried that (well I tried ls /tmp/petal_* > rm_list) but it didn't
work in this case, ls said too many arguments...

Also once I did have a script to delete all the file it took well
over an hour to run and this is on a fast box...

I think a nightly cron job is in order as William suggested :-)

Chris

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