From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-14T03:10:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Better way to kill files?

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:
>
> $man find
>
> $find ~/foo/bar -mmin 300 -delete

ruby -e '`find ~/foo/bar -mmin 300 -delete`'

In case the boss says it has to be Ruby :)