how can i have a automatically check folder size and when the contain of the folder is reach to some limit it will deletes all the contains the files inside.
conandor
eggi 92 Posting Whiz
Hey There,
du is a good command to use to check a folder size. Compare that against your baseline (whatever your "too big" limit is) and, at that point, just use rm -rf to remove the contents. You'll probably want to run it in cron if it's a persistent check.
Best wishes,
Mike
conandor
thanks.
how can i write a cron script for it
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