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wolfie on 08/28/07


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How to remove files that are over 1 day old

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A one-liner to remove any temporary files modified over one day ago. Removes files from /tmp/ Run without the '-exec rm {} \;' part to check that it is matching the right set of files - this can be dangerous if run by root! If you want to remove files modified today, change +1 to -1 This can be useful to add into crontab though

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  1. find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

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