Thankyou,

I think i will use the cron option, just in case as Data64 pointed out and sparkyichi was good enough to convey that i may have a problem if i use the sleep option and the server reboots.

I have looked at cron through google and found some info about the * in the time and day etc but could you just explain the "30 1" and "-exec /bin/rm '{}' \;" parts.

I get that -exec is trying to execute somthing but what, does this remove the dir, and if so can i put my perl script call in here instead so it reads: 

30 1 * * *  -mtime 1 -exec/home/march05/msc0516/public_html/Blast/dele
+teFiles.pl;

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