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I use perl for this as well. perl -e 'chdir "/var/session" or die; opendir D, "."; while ($f = readdir D) { unlink $f }' It is very efficient memory-w
by psutor 13y ago
I use perl for this as well.
perl -e 'chdir "/var/session" or die; opendir D, ".";
while ($f = readdir D) { unlink $f }'
It is very efficient memory-wise compared to the other options as well as being much faster.
It is also easy to apply filters as you would with -mtime or such in find, just change the end statement to:
{ if (-M $f > 30) {unlink $f} }
to affect files modified more than 30 days ago.
- ralph 13y agoIt's not that I'd use Perl for the task, just that I don't think rsync is special. Indeed, rsync has the overhead of forking a child and communicating empty/'s bareness.