#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $TODAY = time;
my $BACKUP_DIR = "/home/sriram/backup";
my $LOGFILE = "$ENV{HOME}/logs/cleanup.log";
my $wktime = 604800; #(ie 86400*7)
sub remove_old_files
{
open (LOGFILE, ">$LOGFILE");
opendir(DIR, $BACKUP_DIR) or die "could not open directory: $!";
while (my $file = readdir DIR){
next if -d "$DIR/$file";
my $mtime = (stat "$DIR/$file")[9];
if ($TODAY - $wktime > $mtime){
print LOGFILE "$DIR/$file is older than 7 days...removing\n";
unlink $file;
}
}
}
close LOGFILE;
close DIR;
sub main()
{
remove_old_files();
}
main();
Friday 6 March 2009
clean up files older than a week
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