Housekeeping

Apologies again for the lack of updates – has been a bit hectic here and as I havent really been doing any coding, I havent had much useful information.

So today I thought I would share some Linux Pearls of wisdom, many people need to create housekeeping scripts that clean up certain directories every so often.

Many Perl advocates will tell you that banging a load of Regex into perl will do it simply.

I disagree – POSIX gives you plenty of tools to do 99% of the tasks you need – its just a case of knowing which ones you should be using.

To get you started here are 2 of the most used:

find /your/dir/here -mtime +30 -exec ls {}\;

Lists all files modified more than 30 days ago (clearly you can replace ls with rm to delete these!)

find ./ -type f -atime +365

This finds any files that havent been access for over a year, obviously you can pipe / exec this with something else.

Hope this helps!