Delete Files in directory after x days

Sawan

Hi
Does anyone know how to setup a php script, to delete files in a directory which are older than 60 days, in Linux.

RyanJones

Sawan wrote:
Hi
Does anyone know how to setup a php script, to delete files in a directory which are older than 60 days, in Linux.

Scann all the files in the directory, check the date the file was last modified or created.
Then format that in such a way that its easy to convert abck into its numeric form, get the current dates numerical form also.

Take ther two away and then check if the result if greater than 60 days - if yes delete file otherwise leave it along :-)

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

bradgrafelman

RyanJones describes the process quite well, here's some commands to start you out:

[man]opendir[/man] & [man]readdir[/man] or [man]glob[/man], [man]filectime[/man] or [man]filemtime[/man], and finally [man]unlink[/man]

Using the filemtime or filectime, the easiest way to go about this would be to get your starting date into a Unix timestamp (number of seconds since Unix epoch, Jan 1 1970 I believe) using a command such as [man]mktime[/man], then subtracting the Unix timestamp of the modified/created filetime from your genereated timestamp, and if the result is bigger than 606060 (timestamp is seconds, so 60 seconds 60 seconds = 1 day, 1 day 60 days) then delete ("unlink") the file.