Purpose here is to find all files > 5 hours old in a directory and wipe
them...
Of course I could just write a shell script but I wanted to leverage
ruby...or, rather, needed to leverage ruby...not real familiar with the
File and FileUtils API just yet...
dir_path = "~/foo/bar"
Dir.new(dir_path).each {|file|
if file.include?('foobar')
afile = File.new("#{dir_path}/#{file}")
if (Time.now - afile.mtime)/60/60 > 5
File.delete("#{dir_path}/#{file}")
end
end
}
Of course you might want to generate a log of what got deleted.
Or perhaps just to stdout...
Then again, you might even want to do that and move them to a temp dir for later deletion if they're not important.
Definitely want a log of anything that fit the requirements but was unable to delete!
···
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:
On Oct 13, 1:53 pm, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/13/07, Cory Wilkerson <co...@americanmonkey.com> wrote:
Purpose here is to find all files > 5 hours old in a directory and wipe
them...
Of course I could just write a shell script but I wanted to leverage
ruby...or, rather, needed to leverage ruby...
Not to discourage you from doing it in ruby, but you don't need to
write a shell script:
