From brokenpoet.org wiki

Let's say a user has a poorly coded something that writes a bunch of files and doesn't clear them up. The obvious solution would be for them to fix their code, right?

However this isn't always what we can do.

This is a script meant to be run as a cron job which will remove those files

You will need to modify the path variable.

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wget http://scripts.brokenpoet.org/fileremovalcron.sh

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#!/bin/bash
# written by benjamin cathey 2008.06.20
# to remove files via cron job

start=$(date)
path="/path/to/files/"
files=$(find $path -type f)
count=0
email="bcathey@liquidweb.com"

for i in $files
do
  count=$(($count + 1))
  rm -rf $i 
done
end=$(date)
echo "Removed $count files from $path.  Started on $start and finished on $end" |mail -s "File removal for $path on `hostname`" $email