Here is some code, more or less lifted straight from the horse's mouth

{
    my $now;
    sub days_ago {
        # days as number of seconds
        $now ||= time;
        return $now - (86400 * shift);
    }
}

for my $file (

    File::Find::Rule->new
        ->mtime( '<' . days_ago(2) )
        ->name( qr/^CGItemp\d+$/ )
        ->file()
        ->maxdepth(1)
        ->in('tmp'),

    File::Find::Rule->new
        ->mtime( '<' . days_ago(14) )
        ->file()
        ->maxdepth(1)
        ->in('/tmp/ep'),

    File::Find::Rule->new
        ->mtime( '<' . days_ago(30) )
        ->file()
        ->in(qw(
            /var/db/ep/epdata/reports
            /var/db/ep/cmd/sync-log
            /var/db/ep/cmd/analyse-oracle/log
        )),

) {
    $body = "Old temporary files purged:\n" unless length($body);
    $body .= "$file "
        . (unlink($file) ? 'ok' : "not ok: $!")
        . "\n";
    ++$files;
}

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• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl

In reply to Re: Automatically Deleting Files Periodically by grinder
in thread Automatically Deleting Files Periodically by neversaint

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