From ba78af3edbde1c2694e92828ae67201f88c0839e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rswindell <>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:18:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Useful utility script to automatically purge files in any
directory older than a certain age in days (defaults to 30).
---
exec/purgefiles.js | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 exec/purgefiles.js
diff --git a/exec/purgefiles.js b/exec/purgefiles.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d03f538734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exec/purgefiles.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+// purgefiles.js
+
+const default_max_age=30; // days
+
+argn=0;
+if((max_age=parseInt(argv[argn]))>0)
+ argn++;
+else
+ max_age=default_max_age;
+
+if(argc==argn) {
+ printf("\nusage: purgfiles.js [max_age_in_days] <directory/pattern>\n");
+ printf("\ndefault max_age_in_days = %lu\n",default_max_age);
+ exit();
+}
+
+
+printf("Getting directory of %s", argv[argn]);
+files = directory(argv[argn]);
+printf("\n%lu files\n",files.length);
+
+printf("\nPurging files aged more than %lu days\n",max_age);
+purged_files=0;
+now = time();
+for(i in files) {
+ t=file_date(files[i]);
+ age=(now-t)/(24*60*60);
+ if(age <= max_age)
+ continue;
+ print(system.datestr(t) + " " + files[i]);
+ if(!file_remove(files[i])) {
+ log("!Error " + errno + " removing " + files[i]);
+ continue;
+ }
+ purged_files++;
+}
+
+printf("%lu files purged.\n",purged_files);
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