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Crontab to delete a directory

Kris
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Apr 18, 2000, 4:50 PM

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Is there a way to use crontab to delete a directory automaticly? What I was thinking was that if a person wanted to delete their directory, the perl script would write the directory to be deleted into a .txt file. Then another script would read the .txt and delete whatever directory needed to be deleted. After it was deleted, to stop errors it would erase that directory that needed to be deleted in the .txt file. Then you could set up crontab to go to the perl script and automate the process. Is that possible. If so how would you do that?

Cure
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Apr 20, 2000, 7:14 AM

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Re: Crontab to delete a directory [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

To use contrab to delete a directory->

make a script that removes the directory,
and add an entry for the script to the crontab.

The script that will delete a directory -->

#!/usr/bin/perl
$dir = 'cure'; #the name of the directory is cure
mkdir $dir,'0755';
chmod(0755, $dir);

To setup the crontab ->(use telnet)

<crontab> you can edit commands

with crontab -e (for vi - mode)
and crontab -l to see it.

Cure

[This message has been edited by Cure (edited 04-20-2000).]

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