CLEANTMP(8)CLEANTMP(8)NAMEcleantmp - clean out a tmp dir
SYNOPSIScleantmp [-d[level]] [-i file] ... -days|-f [directory ...]
DESCRIPTION
Cleantmp removes all files in each of the given directories and their
subdirectories that have not been accessed for at least 'days' days.
Empty subdirectories are removed if their modified times are more than
'days' days old. Cleantmp looks at days as humans do, i.e. they last
from midnight to midnight. Meaning that cleantmp-1 /tmp removes all
files that were not touched after midnight last night. This may be very
helpful, because in many cases that big file that clogs up /tmp was
created yesterday, but less than 24 hours ago.
The 'days' flag may be replaced by -f causing cleantmp to remove all
files in the directory no matter what age. Specifying zero days
doesn't work, because it is assumed to be a mistake.
Cleantmp knows that files and directories that have a name starting
with a '.' are special and will not delete them or files within them if
they are not at least 14 days old.
OPTIONS
-d[level]]
Set the debug level to level (by default 1). Normally only errors
are reported. Debug level 1 lists the actions taken on standard
error, level 2 also prints the file times used, and level 3 makes
cleantmp playact, i.e. nothing is really removed.
-i file
One or more -i options name files to be ignored. Files are not
removed if they are in the list of ignored files by either a
directory entry match, or a full pathname match. This option is
useful to keep things like named pipes that some longlived pro‐
grams foolishly put in temporary directories.
SEE ALSOfind(1).
BUGS
Don't use 'cleantmp -1' shortly after midnight.
It would be nice if one could delete files that are, say, 2 hours old.
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
CLEANTMP(8)
