limit folder size

[ikbel borcheni]

Hi,I would like to limit a folder space (in a shell script):
when the folder exceeds the maximum size, I have to remove the oldest files
How to do this and how to make it running all the time?

thanks for the help

[sicarie]

I would create a script that ran a 'du -hs /path/to/folder' to check the size. Then you could use sed or awk to get the list of the contents of that folder - including date (or pipe ls -alh or something into it), and remove the 'biggest'.

That script would then go into cron and be set for how often you'd like it to run.