Re: [cobalt-users] How to removing directories older than 7 days

[Andreas Banze <andreas@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu Aug 14, 2003 - 10:18:14AM, René Mølsted wrote:

> I need to remove directories older than 7 days at 23:59 every day
> The directories are named by date, eg. 2003-08-03
> I also need to run it as a Crontab or from cron.daily ;o)

two possibilities:
1. checkout man tmpwatch 
2. use this script in cron.daily (it deletes not everything older than 7
days but all from exactly 7 days back - started every day this should not be
a problem):

/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=$(date --date="1 week ago" +%Y-%m-%d)
rm -fr path/to/your/files/$TIMESTAMP
echo "deleted $TIMESTAMP"

change /path/to/your/files/ so it fits your setup

If you want to use crontab, go ahead, the man page (man 5 crontab and man
crontab) shoudl have any information you need.

MfG
Andreas Banze

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