Re: Purging old files from directories

>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 Don't bother with PHP for tasks like these - just use the standard unix find program. The following one-liner should work: find /path/to/your/dir -mtime +14 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f man find, man xargs for more info. -mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html