thanks for the reply stolzboy, i was thinking more in terms of a direct linux command.
not using CRON to run a PHP script.

reg
keivn

    try this, it worked for me

    find /yourdir/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; //where 1 is number of days since it was modified

      8 days later

      Thanks for the tip.. I was also looking for this.

      Best regards.

        3 years later

        I know this thread is like a billion years old, and I know f-all about cron or UNIX shell commands for the most part, but I'm assuming that

        find /yourdir/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

        won't work on directories, too.

        Is there a way to recursively delete all directories, subdirectories, and files in this fashion?

        Thanks for any help. It is MUCH appreciated.

          no, that doesn't work on directories, you can find the modified time of a directory tho, check out www.php.net/filemtime

          you can delete recursively with this

          function mostRecentModifiedFileTime($dirName,$doRecursive) {
   $d = dir($dirName);
   $lastModified = 0;
   while($entry = $d->read()) {
       if ($entry != "." && $entry != "..") {
           if (!is_dir($dirName."/".$entry)) {
               $currentModified = filemtime($dirName."/".$entry);
           } else if ($doRecursive && is_dir($dirName."/".$entry)) {
               $currentModified = mostRecentModifiedFileTime($dirName."/".$entry,true);
           }
           if ($currentModified > $lastModified){
               $lastModified = $currentModified;
           }
       }
   }
   $d->close();
   return $lastModified;
}
            16 days later

            Cool, thanks for the reply!

            I guess my only outstanding question would be, "How can I run such a script automatically and at a specified interval?"

            What's the best-practice/standard way to do this? Use cron to execute the script using the command-line version of PHP?

            Thanks again =)

              a month later

              find /yourdir/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; //where 1 is number of days since it was modified

              Is there a way to make it delete a specific file in the directory every hour? I would rather not run a php script to do this.

              Lets say I wanted to delete
              /yourdir/tmp/temp.txt every hour. Is there a way to do it?

                a month later

                Hi, You can run a php script as a shell script to delete files(dirs) every hours!

                Here is a part of my script:

                
#!/usr/local/php511/bin/php
<?php
function your_functions()
	// check and delete files
}

function run_self()     {
        your_functions();
        sleep(3600);
        run_self();
}

run_self();

?>

                Save the script as a shell script like : delete_tmp_files.sh

                chmod +x delete_tmp_files.sh

                Run it:
                ./delete_tmp_files.sh &

                It works for me, and only use a little CPU resource!

                  22 days later
                  stolzyboy wrote:

                  find /yourdir/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; //where 1 is number of days since it was modified

                  Excellent. Almost what I needed. Can I alter this command so that it doesn'n delete index.html ?

                    3 months later

                    Hello,

                    I'm totally new to PHP and don't know what I'm doing wrong!

                    Tried running:
                    find /yourdir/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
                    in a php file but I am getting an error.

                    I made an text file and named it dtf.php and dropped it in an directory called dtf. When I executed the file I want that it deletes files in the directory tmp which is located in de directory jcms. Doing this I get an Parse Error.

                    <?php
                    find /jcms/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
                    ?>

                    Bert

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