| 1 | .TH CLEANTMP 8
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | cleantmp \- clean out a tmp dir
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | .B cleantmp
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| 6 | .RB [ \-d "[\fIlevel\fR]]"
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| 7 | .RB [ \-i
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| 8 | .IR file "] ..."
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| 9 | .BR \-\fIdays\fB | \-f
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| 10 | .RI [ directory " ...]"
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| 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 12 | .B Cleantmp
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| 13 | removes all files in each of the given directories and their subdirectories
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| 14 | that have not been accessed for at least
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| 15 | .I 'days'
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| 16 | days. Empty subdirectories are removed if their modified times are more
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| 17 | than
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| 18 | .I 'days'
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| 19 | days old.
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| 20 | .B Cleantmp
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| 21 | looks at days as humans do, i.e. they last from midnight to midnight.
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| 22 | Meaning that
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| 23 | .B cleantmp -1 /tmp
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| 24 | removes all files that were not touched after midnight last night. This may
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| 25 | be very helpful, because in many cases that big file that clogs up
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| 26 | .B /tmp
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| 27 | was created yesterday, but less than 24 hours ago.
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| 28 | .PP
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| 29 | The 'days' flag may be replaced by
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| 30 | .B \-f
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| 31 | causing
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| 32 | .B cleantmp
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| 33 | to remove all files in the directory no matter what age. Specifying zero
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| 34 | days doesn't work, because it is assumed to be a mistake.
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| 35 | .PP
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| 36 | .B Cleantmp
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| 37 | knows that files and directories that have a name starting with a '.' are
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| 38 | special and will not delete them or files within them if they are not at
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| 39 | least 14 days old.
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| 40 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 41 | .TP 5
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| 42 | .BR \-d "[\fIlevel\fR]]"
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| 43 | Set the debug level to
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| 44 | .I level
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| 45 | (by default 1). Normally only errors are reported. Debug level 1 lists the
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| 46 | actions taken on standard error, level 2 also prints the file times used,
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| 47 | and level 3 makes
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| 48 | .B cleantmp
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| 49 | playact, i.e. nothing is really removed.
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| 50 | .TP
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| 51 | .BI \-i " file "
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| 52 | One or more
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| 53 | .B \-i
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| 54 | options name files to be ignored. Files are not removed if they are in the
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| 55 | list of ignored files by either a directory entry match, or a full pathname
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| 56 | match. This option is useful to keep things like named pipes that some
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| 57 | longlived programs foolishly put in temporary directories.
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| 58 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 59 | .BR find (1).
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| 60 | .SH BUGS
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| 61 | Don't use '\fBcleantmp -1\fP' shortly after midnight.
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| 62 | .PP
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| 63 | It would be nice if one could delete files that are, say, 2 hours old.
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| 64 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 65 | Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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