Re: Purging old files from directories

* Thus wrote Verdon vaillancourt (verdon@lacmedia.com): > Hi :) > > I need to write a script that will scan/read a given directory's contents > and delete files older than a certain date. Ideally, this will be a script > that runs via cron once a week and deletes all files it finds in the > directory older than 2 weeks from the current date. I do currently have > scripts running via cron and that's no problem. I'm not sure where to begin > with the other components hm.. there are tools aleady available that do this on unix. find /path/to/files/ -type f -mtime '+14' -exec rm {} \; > > I'm not looking to be spoon-fed, but I was hoping that someone could point > me in the right direction to start researching. If you still desire to write a php script: php.net/dir - for directory reading stuff php.net/stat - gets the stats on files. HTH, Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."