[Mapserver-users] How to empty the TMP directory

[m.spring at gmx.de]

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Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> writes:

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> find /maptmp -type f -cmin +15 -exec /bin/rm {} ';'
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I use a slight modification (linux, probably other unices):

find /data/web/tmp -type f -maxdepth 1 -amin +60 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f

Reasons: 

* my tmp directory has subdirs for other stuff, therefore -maxdepth 1
* I do produce several temporary files I want to delete, therefore
  -type f
* I collect all output of find with -print0 and pipe it collected by
  xargs to rm. This avoids starting a process with rm for every found
  file and only triggers rm once for all found files. This has its
  advantage on heavily loaded machines

Kind regards

Markus
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