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

[James Bucanek]

Stroller wrote on Thursday, May 13, 2004:

>You want to use `find, in conjunction with the "-prune" primary.
>Something like:
>   find /var/spool/cups -type f -prune /var/spool/cups/tmp -exec rm -f 
>\{} \;

Another suggestion: Rather than wiping *all* of the files, why not just delete the ones that are more than 24 hours old?

    find /var/spool/cups -mmin 1440 ...
    
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