I've never used crontab before and I'm wondering if someone could explain to me how I can set it up to remove all files in a specific directory every morning at 2am.
Thank you.
Steve Gliebe
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Gliebster posted this at 23:11 — 8th June 2001.
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Nevermind, I think I did it. I wrote a little script that wipes all the files in the directory except for itself and I set up a cron job to execute the file each morning. I know the script works but I guess I'll have to see if the cron job worked tomorrow morning.
It's always fun to learn new stuff.
Steve Gliebe
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http://dreamdolphin.com
Mark Hensler posted this at 00:16 — 9th June 2001.
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No wait... let me guess. You used PHP.
mairving posted this at 01:13 — 9th June 2001.
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Even Easier to do would be a simple script like this
In Linux:
/path to directory/rm * , save it with the .sh extension and chmod it to make it executable.
In Windows:
cd /path to directory
del *
save as a .bat file.
Mark Irving
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Mark Hensler posted this at 15:28 — 9th June 2001.
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hmm... I never even thought about that.
.... .bat ... that brings back memories.. hehe