BBEdit 8.7.1 Adds Features, Fixes Bugs, Saves Data

On 16-Nov-2007, at 07:21, roller.gvqovgfmailnull.com wrote:
> Regarding the BBEdit Backups folder containing over 17,000 files
> dating back to 2004, ...
>
> ... I wrote a little shareware tool that can be set up to manage
> folders like this, such as the download folder or the trash itself.
>
> The tool will watch such folders and (re)move only items that have
> been there for longer than, say, a month (you pick your own
> folder-specific "grace period"). Older files are deleted or trashed
> - unless they were modified in which case they will stay for another
> month.

You can also do this with a straight-forward crontab using find.

I believe the syntax is

find /path/to/backups -mtime +30d -exec rm {} \;

which will find all the files older than 30 days in the path and
remove them. Of course, it might be good to see what you are deleting
first:

find /path/to/backups -mtime +30d -ls

The syntax I find to be backwards. +30d means NOT modified in the
last 30 days. Saying -30d would be files that WERE modified in the
last 30 days.

Of course you could say +10h +8m or even +6w (6 weeks).