[nmglug] filezilla auto delete script file contents

[Jason Schaefer]

a!
how's everything?
I would recommend using a cron job if you can. If its on my server,
you already have shell access and can leave ftp behind, as it is lame.
The whole process goes something like this:
ssh a at server
crontab -e
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/find /home/a/dir_w_jpgs -type f -iname *.jpg -mtime
+5 -exec rm -fr {} \;
save, and done! This is the very terse version, if you need more
detail, let us know. this will run find and in turn rm every day at
midnight. It will find files (type f) with .jpg at the end that are
older than 5 days. Hope this helps..
j

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, a <a at kaluta.us> wrote:
> Re: A website were I upload .jpg's generated by a security camera using
> that website as an offsite repository for those jpg's.
>
> When I use the ftp site personally I use sftp.
>
> In order to limit the size of the offsite repository website,
> I would like,for example,to delete those uploaded jpg's every two days.
>
> Anyway Hope I have more clearly defined the problem.
>
> Casting around the internet has not yet given me a toe hold on the
> concept,welcome any further insights.
>
> Thanks
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 06:11 -0600, Eric Krieger wrote:
>> May be I'm missing something.  Are you SFTPing or FTPing to a
>> particular site and want to remove the contents of that or are you
>> referring to a local directory on a linux server or workstation?  I
>> guess where does filezilla fit in?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Eric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:57 AM, a <a at kaluta.us> wrote:
>> > Would like to use the following script with crontab to delete specific
>> > file contents situated on filezilla.
>> >
>> > "find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;"
>> >
>> > What is the "/path/to/files*" without using a "logon to filezilla
>> > script"?
>> >
>> > Anyone have any experience with this seemingly common task,to date, have
>> > been unable to find an effective solution on the internet?
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Anthony
>> >
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