Re: Petal temp files

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find /tmp -name 'petal_*' -mtime +30 | xargs rm

should find and delete all petal files in /tmp older than 30 days.

but fear filenames like 'petal_fake;rm -rf ..;#ignore'
if you feed the list to a shell script!

yours
Olaf

William McKee schrieb:
| On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:30:07PM +0000, Chris Croome wrote:
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|>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).
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| 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).
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|>What do other people do, have cron jobs that delete the old ones once a
|>week or something?
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| Nightly!
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| William
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