From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T02:53:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Better way to kill files?

On 10/13/07, Cory Wilkerson <coryw@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:

$man find

$find ~/foo/bar -mmin 300 -delete


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