From: John Joyce Date: 2007-10-14T03:42:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Better way to kill files? On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Brian Adkins wrote: > On Oct 13, 1:53 pm, "Rick DeNatale" wrote: >> On 10/13/07, Cory Wilkerson 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 :) > > Of course you might want to generate a log of what got deleted. Or perhaps just to stdout... Then again, you might even want to do that and move them to a temp dir for later deletion if they're not important. Definitely want a log of anything that fit the requirements but was unable to delete!