How to remove zip files in specific folder in my hosting by cron job?
I want to remove zip files in specific folder every day at 5:00PM
Please help.
2 Answers
You can add a cronjob which will run at 5 PM daily which will find and remove all .zip files in the specified directory as:
find . -type f -name "*.zip" -exec rm -f {} \;
This will find all the .zip files in the current directory and remove them; this DOES not include directories named *zip
You can put the above command in a shell script as it is and then run it via cron.
To add a cron, simply put the following in the file that opens up after typing crontab -e:
0 17 * * * script.sh
Where script.sh is the script containing that one line command.
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Thank you for reply. This my cron job screen how I can use this command on it ? i.imgur.com/sHnXFt2.png– AliNov 2, 2018 at 19:43
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From the picture, the
Weekdayshould have either 5 or 17 (consult with your hosting provider to clarify on that) and in theMinutefield, it should be00. In theCommandfield, you need to put the command that I shared (find . -type f -name "*.zip" -exec rm -f {} \;). Again, I'd recommend to ask your provider for how to set the time via GUI but the command should be the same.– sla3kNov 2, 2018 at 19:52 -
Thank you for help I appreciate that my folder path is: public_html/ali/hi How I can write the command ?– AliNov 2, 2018 at 19:55
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From the GUI, I am not sure but in order to search inside
public_html/ali/hiwhen the command is called/run fromsomething/public_html/ali/hi:find something/public_html/ali/hi -type f -name "*.zip" -exec rm -f {} \;; you can also put in the absolute path (from the terminal, runpwdwhile you are cd'd into...ali/hidirectory), the output is your absolute path to this directory. In this case, use:find absolute_path_here -type f -name "*.zip" -exec rm -f {} \;– sla3kNov 2, 2018 at 20:00
change folder_path to your value
- crontab -e
- $(which find) folder_path -maxdepth 0 -name "*.zip" -delete
- save file (if vim :wq)
check cronjob installed: crontab -l
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Do you need exact values that you can use in your GUI? Did you change folder_path to the path of your choice? What is a full path of the directory you need to remove files from? Nov 5, 2018 at 14:45