stonecolddevin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Howdy again all,
I'm looking to find out how to create a cron job that will delete old "chat" room files, one nightly, and another every 3 minutes or so. I can write the script, I just need to know how to use cron to execute it at the given time(s).

Thanks again,
-Dhoss

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Re: cron job to delete files?
by Abstraction (Friar) on Jul 04, 2003 at 02:43 UTC
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      I'm sorry, I just figured I was writing a perl script to do a job so I might as well ask the question here, sorry though.

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        I just figured I was writing a perl script to do a job

        There's probably no good reason to use Perl for that. I would think that rm would do just fine.

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        I just figured I was writing a perl script to do a job so I might as well ask the question here

        Considering that you were very likely sitting in a chair while writing the job, did you consider contacting customer service of a furniture store about your cron question?

        Abigail

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Re: cron job to delete files?
by naChoZ (Curate) on Jul 04, 2003 at 03:07 UTC
    man 5 crontab is also worth a look.

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    naChoZ

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Re: cron job to delete files?
by archen (Pilgrim) on Jul 04, 2003 at 19:34 UTC
    you might also consider looking up the program 'tmpwatch'. You might find it'll save you some work.
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