ZHAO, BING wrote:
Hi:
I need to delete files older than one week old, I know how
to code that(with the help of many kind people on this list):
But it only happens when I run the program, there is a
chance I will not be running the program for more than a week. And the
dir keeps getting larger(downloading files from website), I need those
files older than 1 week all gone WITHOUT having to type ./do_it.pl on
unix command line.
Any idea on this? It seems pretty unreasonle to me, even.
Let me know if this is something impossible.
thank you.
You can do this with a cron job. This is done frequently to keep things
up to date on your system. You can set it up to run things from
anywhere from every minute, to once a year (I think that's the limit of
the scope of the cron time fields, I don't believe there is a year
field). You will want to look at the cron and crontab man pages.
Jessica
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