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Re: systemd-tmpfiles: file globbing?

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> Is there a way to apply max lifetimes to files matching a pattern? I can't
> find any way to tell it to, say, remove *.txt files older than a month from
> /tmp/foo.

If you're willing to turn away from systemd, find(1) can do this.

    find /tmp/foo -type f -iname '*.txt' -mtime +31 -delete

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systemd-tmpfiles: file globbing? Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 12:20 +0200
  Re: systemd-tmpfiles: file globbing? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-13 14:10 +0200

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