On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:26:54PM +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote: > The specific case I have is an old site with close to 1,000 files in its > directory tree, of which only 380 are actually referenced from the > navigable pages. Even allowing for some pages that are standalone, that's > a lot of cruft I can clean out !
find $web_root -atime +180 -print0 | xargs -0 rm If no-one's looked at it in six months, why keep it? </bofh>, Paul PS If the site's public, there's no need to run a crawler as the search engines will've done this for you already. Then the -atime solution is actually quite viable. -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is consciousness? The Yangzee in May." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/