Comments on: Clear your /tmp

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:21:31 +0000

I know you did this a long time ago, but thanks! I have a tendency to fill up my / directory, and I needed a way to clean out unnecessary files automatically.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:48:14 +0000

I just noticed that wordpress for some reason is filtering my backslashes. Turns out the backslash is interpretted as an escape, so I had to escape the escape (ie. \\;) and everything looks good again.

Sorry to the guys that couldn’t get this thing to work.

By: chronic_masturbator

chronic_masturbator — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:19:33 +0000

actually change it to

#!/bin/bash
find /tmp -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/tmp -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;

and it will work fine

By: Simon_c

Simon_c — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:23:07 +0000

The major problem with this script on a system that has any kind of access from the outside world on it, is what happens if some evil user puts a symlink into /tmp say ../usr/bin

By: 2006 November 16 « A r j u n a

2006 November 16 « A r j u n a — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:25:46 +0000

[...] Solusi yang gampang bagi gue ya tinggal ngikutin petunjuk di sini. Tinggal pakai perintah find. [...]

By: PG

PG — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:49:36 +0000

Try replacing “-exec rm {} ;” with “-delete”.

By: Carol Sanders

Carol Sanders — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:17:32 +0000

I attempted to use this script but received the following error: find: missing argument to `-exec’. Can you suggest what might be the issue? I read the manpage for exec and tried adding -cl and -a.
Thanks