Question

I have this cron job to empty a temp folder I have once a day:

rm -rf /home/username/public_html/temp/*

I want this cron job to delete all files which created before the it will run with 5 minutes and up just to make sure that my script don’t need these files anymore.

Let’s say I set the cron job to run everyday at 10:00 AM .. I want it to delete all files in this folder which created before 09:55 AM

Thank you so much experts!

Answer 1

If you’re using GNU find, try this:

find /home/username/public_html/temp -type f -mmin +5 -delete

Should also work with FreeBSD or many other versions of find.