On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 19:47, Jeff Cours wrote: > > If somebody wants to do some clever scripting: I have a similar need, > > but not yet found a simple solution: I want to purge some cache > > directory and just leave the most recently accessed k megabytes. File > > sizes vary greatly, so file count won't help much. > > There's probably a nice, elegant way to do this one in shell script, > but I'd be tempted to just throw it over to Perl. Warning: this script > will break if the list of file names gets too big to hold in memory: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w [...] Thanks a lot. Will try. I don't speak perl fluently, that's why I looked for a shell script - but it gets the job done, and perl is installed by default, so it doesn't matter. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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