Thread: rm files older then 2 seconds?

Code: for file in `ls -ltr --time-style=+%s | awk '{now=systime(); del_time=now-2; if($6<del_time && $5=="0") print $7}'` ;do chmod 777 $file >/dev/null 2>&1 rm -f $file >/dev/null 2>&1 done

Hello, I've got a script to delete 0 byte files, but I need it to work only for files that have been created at least 2 seconds ago (Are two seconds old). I'm not sure what's the best way of doing this, I've had a look at the stat command too but well.. Code: for file in `ls -l | grep ^- | awk '{print $5, $9}' | grep ^0 | awk '{print $2}'` ;do chmod 777 $file >/dev/null 2>&1 rm -f...

You can simplify your ls: - Code: ls -l | nawk ' /^-/ && ($5 == "0"){print $NF}' Rather than get involved in date arithmetic can you get away with a sleep of two seconds before doing the delete?

The best way of doing this is not doing it at all .... Why create a file that needs to be immediately removed? Anyway, you can play with something like this, but be careful, it's very, very dangerous! Code: perl -e' -z and (2/86400) < -M and unlink for @ARGV ' * Use it at your own risk.

As you haven't explained the race condition, I can only wonder if "lsof" might help.