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Praveen
Praveen

Reputation: 3

How to delete files of a directory in a web server periodically?

I want to display a file upload demo in my website.
So I need to delete all the files in the uploads directory every one hour.
I am using a remotely hosted platform( linux).
I want to know how to implement this.

How to delete files of a directory in a web server periodically?

I think it can be implemented using cron job but I don't have much knowledge about cron jobs So please answer in detail.

I tried browsing all the answers in stackoverflow website I didn't find any questions answering my problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1667

Answers (2)

kovarov
kovarov

Reputation: 802

every 15 min and every hour and day and moth delete files *.php

 15 * * * * find /domaine_path/ -mtime +7 -type f -name "*.php" -exec rm -f {} \;

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee

Reputation: 2613

Use crontab -e to edit your crontab. I am assuming you have shell access to your server of course.

Then add the following line: 0 * * * * rm -f /path/to/dir/*

I believe crontab defaults to vim as an editor, so if you are not familiar, just remember: press i to begin editing, then Esc to return to command mode, followed by :wq to write to file and quit.

If you don't have shell access to your server...then best I can think of is having PHP/whatever backend you are using check the time on every request.

Upvotes: 2

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