Re: temp file deletion strategies?

you know you might have been doing this stuff too long when the obvious just ain't obvious any more (:-p thanks -David jeremy brand wrote: > 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 > > > >