[comp.mail.mh] atime vs. mtime

snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) (12/29/88)

In article <8812021334.AA04237@PacRat.NPAC.syr.edu> jerryp@PACRAT.NPAC.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) writes:

|	45 3 * * * find / -name "[,#]*" -type f -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f
|
|Once a day (at 3:45 AM) it searches the filesystem for files whose name
|starts with "#" or "," and which haven't been read or written in 7 days.
|It removes those files.

Under UTek, and perhaps other systems, writing to a file does not update
the atime.  This cron entry would remove files written less than 7 days ago
as long as they had not been read for 7 days.
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