Hi Jonathan!
On Thursday 02 July 2009 08:13:20 Jonathan Swartz wrote:
> My points about "find ... | xargs rm -f" apply as well to a simple
> File::Find. Namely, it doesn't have the safety checks, directory
> pruning, or reporting.
>
> I am using File::Find::Object in the library.
Since I'm the File::Find::Object maintainer, I'm:
1. Glad you're using it in this case.
2. Interested in why you've chosen it instead of File::Find.
3. If you have any complaints/suggestions/comments about File::Find::Object ,
I'd be interested in hearing them.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Dana Hudes wrote:
> > True to some extent. You do have to actually invoke it to build your
> > list and then unlink the files on the list. This seems fairly
> > trivial. Am I missing something?
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
> >
> >
> > From: Bill Ward
> > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:19:20 -0700
> > To: <dhu...@hudes.org>
> > Subject: Re: module/script to clean up old files and prune empty
> > directories
> >
> > File::Find can be used to write such a script, but doesn't by itself
> > address this issue.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Dana Hudes <dhu...@hudes.org> wrote:
> > File::Find::Perl
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Jonathan Swartz
> > To: module-authors@perl.org
> > Sent: Jun 30, 2009 7:59 PM
> > Subject: module/script to clean up old files and prune empty
> > directories
> >
> > At various places around our system we want to clean up files older
> > than x, and sometimes prune empty directories. Naturally we have to be
> > careful doing this lest we accidentally blow away far too many of the
> > wrong files.
> >
> > I'm thinking about a Perl module and accompanying script with this
> > interface:
> >
> > cleanup_files.pl --age=age --dir=dir --name=name [--dry-run] [--
> > prune-empty-dirs]
> >
> > where age can be specified as "1h", "2day", etc., and name is a
> > required glob pattern, and dir is checked to make sure it is
> > sufficiently deep (e.g. can't use /). --dry-run tells you what would
> > be deleted. --prune-empty-dirs also causes empty dirs to be pruned.
> > The script would report at its end how many files and directories were
> > removed.
> >
> > The idea is to have a convenient, but safe, one-liner to put in a cron
> > for each directory that needs periodic cleaning.
> >
> > In the past we've done the old "find ... | xargs rm -f", but it
> > doesn't have the safety checks, directory pruning, or reporting.
> >
> > Does anyone else think this is (mildly) valuable? Am I reinventing the
> > wheel, in terms of Perl libraries or other Unix utilities besides
> > basic find?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
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