script to delete

[Mahir]

Hello can anyone help me to make a script that everynight 02:00 linux automaticly empty 2 directory's?

/var/www/web2/web/mahir/png
/var/www/web2/web/mahir/tmp

is that possible ?

[till]

Hello can anyone help me to make a script that everynight 02:00 linux automaticly empty 2 directory's?

/var/www/web2/web/mahir/png
/var/www/web2/web/mahir/tmp

is that possible ?

Save this script as e.g. /usr/bin/emptydir.sh


#!/bin/bash

rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/png
rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/tmp

Then make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/bin/emptydir.sh

Then edit your crontab with the command:

crontab -e

and add a line:

59 23 * * * /usr/bin/emptydir.sh &> /dev/null

[falko]

and add a line:

59 23 * * * /usr/bin/emptydir.sh &> /dev/null

To run the cron job at 02.00h, the line should be
0 2 * * * /usr/bin/emptydir.sh &> /dev/null

[till]

You're right, seems I've not read the post completely :) Have not seen that a time was mentioned.

[Mahir]

/usr/bin/ulyaothdelete.sh

#!/bin/bash

rm -f /var/www/web2/web/gd-rppng/png/*.png
rm -f /var/www/web2/web/gd-rppng/tmp/*.txt


chmod +x /usr/bin/ulyaothdelete.sh
crontab -e

and i added
0 2 * * * /usr/bin/ulyaothdelete.sh &> /dev/null

So now this should be ok ?

[till]

but doesnt

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/png
rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/tmp

not delete the directory's png and tmp ? or does it only delete the stuff in it ? that's how i need it

It deletes the directories. If you only want to delte the contents inside of the directories, you can use this script:


#!/bin/bash

rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/png/*
rm -rf /var/www/web2/web/mahir/tmp/*

[Mahir]

Thank u verymuch :) it works perfect :D