[nmglug] filezilla auto delete script file contents

[nick pitlosh]

is this resolved?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jason Schaefer <js at jasonschaefer.com> wrote:
> 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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