[Help] Cron to delete aged files?

I'm looking for a cron to automatically delete files which is like 3 hours after last modified, excluding htaccess and index.php.

any help?

 

This can be easily implemented using php.

 

OMG for goodness sake please don't post something useless

 

crontab automate task, it does not program by itself. you will need it to call up a script, preferably a shell/bash script.

The following script can help attain mod time and access time, you can go from there.
Then add an entry to cron.

0 */3 * * * /path/to/script

#!/bin/bash
#Author: K.Sridhar
#mod_acc.sh: script to find last modified and last accessed time of a file
E_NOARG=65
E_MOREARG=66
if [  $# = 0 ]
then
        echo -e '\E[31m' "Usage: $0 <filename>"
        tput sgr0
        exit $E_NOARG
elif [ $# -gt 1 ]
then
        echo -e '\E[31m' "Please give only one file at a time"
        tput sgr0
        exit $E_MOREARG
fi
LS=`which ls`
MOD_TIME=`$LS -lart $1|cut -f6,7,8 -d" "`
ACC_TIME=`$LS -laru $1|cut -f6,7,8 -d" "`
echo "The modified time of the file is $MOD_TIME"
echo "The accessed time of the file is $ACC_TIME"

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Thanksm alot But i need to know how to delete i too I'm not very good

 

You can delete with following command, I suggest you get used to unix commands before doing anything with shell scripts, they can be dangerous. You might wipe out your entire filesystem.

rm <file>

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