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NAME

File::Maintenance - Maintain files based on their age.

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

This module allows you to purge files from a directory based on age

use File::Maintenance;

my $fm = File::Maintenance->new({
        directory => '/tmp',
        pattern   => '*.sess',
        age       => '5d', #older than five days
});

$fm->test(1); # don't execute the purge
$fm->purge; # prints the action to STDOUT but doesn't purge files

$fm->test(0); # It's all for real
$fm->purge; # Will delete old *.sess files from /tmp
$fm->recurse(1);
$fm->purge; # Will delete old *.sess files from /tmp and sub-directories

You can also archive files (move to another directory) based on age as well

use File::Maintenance;

my $fm = File::Maintenance->new({
        directory         => '/my/data/files',
        archive_directory => '/my/archive/files'
        pattern           => '*',
        recurse           => 1, # subdirectories too
        age               => '30m' # older than 30 minutes
});

$fm->archive;

Each value passed to the constructor has a corresponding method for setting the value, so the archive above could have been written as:

use File::Maintenance;

my $fm = File::Maintenance->new();
$fm->directory('/my/data/files');
$fm->archive_directory('/my/archive/files);
$fm->pattern('*');
$fm->recurse(1);
$fm->age('30m);
$fm->archive;

Instead of purging, files can be compressed with either zip, gzip or bzip2 formats:

$fm->zip;

or

$fm->gzip;

or

$fm->bzip2;

METHODS

directory

The root directory for purging

$fm->directory('/tmp');

pattern

The pattern mask for files to process

$fm->pattern('backup*.tar.gz');

By default, the pattern is a glob. To use a regular expression, it must be quoted with the qr operator:

$fm->pattern(qr/^(foo|bar)\d\d\.jpg$/);

archive_directory

The directory that files will be archived to. If the recurse attribute is set, the archive directory hierarchy will match the source directory hierarchy

age

Files older than the age will either be archived or purged, depending on the requested action. The age can be specified by s, m, h or d - (seconds, minutes, hours or days)

$fm->age('1d'); # Files older than 1 day
$fm->age('4h'); # Files older than 4 hours

recurse

Whether to traverse subdirectories

purge

Delete files older than age

gzip

Compresses files older than age using the gzip format

zip

Compresses files older than age using the zip format

bzip2

Compresses files older than age using the bzip2 format

archive

Archive files older than age

get_files

Return an array of files that match the filter criteria. This method is used internally, but is useful enough to be offered externally

AUTHOR

Dan Horne, <dhorne at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-purge at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-Maintenance. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc File::Maintenance

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Dan Horne, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.