Cron Job for Deleting a files of a particular file extension.

[Bracoau]

Hi guys,

I'm looking for help making a cron job that can remove .tar.gz files from the default cpanel backup location (/home/user) after a specific period (say 30 days).

I've searched google but haven't found anything that specifically does this.

Cheers!

 

[Jeff Shotnik]

You could do `find /home/ -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +30 |xargs rm`

 

[Bracoau]

You could do `find /home/ -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +30 |xargs rm`

thanks a lot, have set this on there now so after 30 days we'll see if it works!

 

[quietFinn]

If you are running that as a cPanel user, you only get an error message:
find: `/home/': Permission denied

in that case you should change it to be:
find /home/USERNAME -type f -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +30 |xargs rm

where USERNAME is your cPanel username.

 

[Bracoau]

If you are running that as a cPanel user, you only get an error message:
find: `/home/': Permission denied

in that case you should change it to be:
find /home/USERNAME -type f -name "*.tar.gz" -mtime +30 |xargs rm

where USERNAME is your cPanel username.

Thanks mate!