Whoo! I haven’t done a post that long in a while! Also makes me think I should get a wordpress plugin for some ‘code’ tags..
I put ‘activerecord’ in there to take advantage of the ‘24.hours.ago’ notation, which makes life much easier. The cost is a little less than 2 seconds to load the library, so I think it’s worth it. It runs as a daily job before backup to tape, to clear old backups from the directory tree.
require 'activerecord'
def delete_recursively(in_here)
Dir.chdir(in_here)
Dir.glob('*') do |filename|
if File.directory?(filename)
delete_recursively(filename)
else
if File.mtime(filename) > 24.hours.ago
File.delete(filename)
end
end
end
Dir.chdir('..')
end
delete_recursively("your/path/here")
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