Need help with this

rafcarter · Oct 12, 2005

Can you tell me exactly what the cron job would look like if I wanted to delete all files under /home/files every 6 hours every day ?

jamesyeeoc · Oct 12, 2005

It would look like:

Code:

*	*/6	*	*	*	rm -rf /home/files/* >/dev/null 2>&1

Which corresponds to:

Code:

Min	Hr	DM	M	DW	Command
*	*/6	*	*	*	rm -rf /home/files/* >/dev/null 2>&1

The ">/dev/null" shovels the output to the bit bucket, the "2>&1" shovels errors (2) to stdout (&1) which of course goes to the bit bucket...