tmpreaper

cleans up files in directories based on their age

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/tmpreaper.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install tmpreaper
Ubuntu
apt-get install tmpreaper
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install tmpreaper
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tmpreaper
OS X
brew install tmpreaper
Raspbian
apt-get install tmpreaper

tmpreaper

cleans up files in directories based on their age

This package provides a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file directories. It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir() across symlinks, and removes files that haven't been accessed in a user-specified amount of time. You can specify a set of files to protect from deletion with a shell pattern. It will not remove files owned by the process EUID that have the `w' bit clear, unless you ask it to, much like `rm -f'. `tmpreaper' will not remove symlinks, sockets, fifos, or special files unless given a command line option enabling it to. WARNING: Please do not run `tmpreaper' on `/'. There are no protections against this written into the program, as that would prevent it from functioning the way you'd expect it to in a `chroot(8)' environment. The daily tmpreaper run can be configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf .