[X-Unix] Trying to get rid of unwanted files

[Mark Gibson]

At 15:56 -0500 13/5/04, Cloyce D. Spradling wrote:
>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 06:49:20AM +1000, Mark Gibson wrote:
>
>: OK. I'll give rm -f * a go (as I don't want to confirm each deletion).
>
>You won't need -f if you aren't using the 'rm' alias that comes standard.
>Invoke it with its full path (probably /bin/rm or /usr/bin/rm; no OSX system
>on hand to check), and no confirmation will be needed.
>
>You probably _do_ want the -f, though, in order to make it return success
>no matter what happens.
>
>: My concern is that there seems to be an upper limit to the number of
>: files that rm can cope with.
>
>It's actually a shell issue.  To get around it, use xargs:
>
>   cd <CUPS dir>; ls | xargs rm -f
>
>Of course, one you've started using the Dreaded Pipe, there's no reason
>to stop there:
>
>   cd <CUPS dir>; ls | grep -v '^tmp$' | xargs rm -rf
>
>and get that directory _REALLY_ clean!
>
>--
>Cloyce
>

Cloyce,

Thanks, the problem is I have to clean /tmp more 
frequently (due to exponential file build up) 
than /cups.

What I'm looking at for /tmp is:

/usr/bin/find /private/var/spool/cups/tmp -mmin +5 -delete

Which deletes files over 5 minutes old (the cron 
task runs this every 5 mins to make it a rolling 
cleanup).

But I'll try:

cd <CUPS dir>; ls | xargs rm -f

To clean /cups on a daily basis.

Thanks to all.
-- 
Regards,

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