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Delete all files older than a certain amount of days

Gray — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:19:43 +0000

Found a nice little clean up command to clean up folders and files older than a specfic amount of days:

find /path/to/files/* -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

Just replace the 90 with the number of days old you want to delete.

You can also pipe it into a log file:

bash -c ‘date;find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm -v {} \;;date’ > ~/mylog

Run command as apache in centos

Gray — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:41:25 +0000

Here is how you run a command as apache in centos without giving apache a valid shell.

su -s /bin/sh apache -c “whoami”

Linux – CentOS – Mail — Delete alll mail in centos using mail

Gray — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:32:03 +0000

Just run the following command from the command line:

echo 'd *' | mail -N

Linux Cheat Sheet

Gray — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:11:23 +0000

For those of us, lucky enough to be Linux Sys admins, Network admin, App Programmer and Tech support, you sometimes need some help. I keep cheet sheets on hand for every app, network appliance, box, system or peice of junk just so I can get the job done without loosing my mind. In my repertoire of cheat sheets in teh all purpose linux cheat sheet that I refer to when I don’t know or can’t think straight. Its handy and will help with most distros.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html