bin/clean_old_files.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# $mysql_backup_dir
# $seconds_to_save  = $increments_to_save * $seconds_multiplier;
# Just set the seconds_to_save number to
# the correct number of seconds, i.e:
# minute: 60 / hour: 3600 / day: 86400 / week: 604800

#my $seconds_to_save = 604800;
my $seconds_to_save = ( 3 * 86400 ) ; # 3 days

# call this subroutine with the '$full_dir_name'

my ($full_dir_name) = $ARGV[0];

if ( not $full_dir_name ) { die "Need a directory name to clean..." };

if ( not -e $full_dir_name ) { die "\nCould NOT Clean Old Files - $full_dir_name doesn't exist.\n" };

print ("\nCleaning Old Files\n");

my $save_time  = time() - $seconds_to_save;
my $deleted_files = 0;

print ("\nRemoving Files Older than $seconds_to_save\n");

opendir (DIRHANDLE, $full_dir_name) or die "Couldn't open $full_dir_name:$!";

# we use $file_prefix to make it safer; we don't want to delete
# any files except those matching the file spec
my $file_prefix="menelvagor";

my @filelist = grep { /^$file_prefix/ } readdir(DIRHANDLE);

closedir (DIRHANDLE);

my @sortlist   = sort(@filelist);

my $file_count = @sortlist;
my $file_msg   = "File Count in Backup Dir: $file_count \n\n";
print ($file_msg);

# loop through directory
foreach my $infile (@sortlist) {

        my $infile_str = $infile;
        $infile     = "$full_dir_name/$infile";

        my ($modtime) = (stat($infile))[9];

        if ( $modtime < $save_time ) {
                # file is older, so delete it
                my $delete_count  = unlink "$infile";

                if ( ! -e $infile ) {
                                        $deleted_files++;
                                        print ("$delete_count File Removed: ($infile_str\)\n");
                                }
                                else { print ("\nProblem Removing File: $infile_str\n"); }
                }
        else { print ("- Keeping: $infile_str\n"); }

        } # end of file loop

print "\nRemoved $deleted_files Files and/or Directories.\n";

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