Re: temp file deletion strategies?

you might just want to run a cron job.. something like this... #!/bin/sh for i in find /your/path -ctime -1 -print do rm -f "$i" done This would remove files that were created up to 1 day (-ctime -1). (also see -cmin if you want minutes...) -jeremy brand http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more --------------------------------------------------------------------- We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -- Calvin Coolidge On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, David P. Schwartz wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:07:25 -0700 > From: David P. Schwartz <davids@desertigloo.com> > To: "php-general@lists.php.net" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: [PHP] temp file deletion strategies? > > If I send a temporary file to a client like this: > > $tempfile = create_file_somehow(...); > header( "Content-type: application/octet-stream" ); > header( "Location: $tempfile" ); > > What sort of strategies exist to make sure that the $tempfile gets deleted? Do > I get control back after the second header executes? > > I'm thinking about situations where client-side caching is disabled and the same > file needs to be created over and over (in my case, it will always have the same > name each time it's created). Giving it a lifetime of an hour or so would be > handy, but it needs to get deleted eventually. > > Thanks > -David > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >