{"id":3485,"date":"2019-02-12T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/usage-help-manual\/1-utilities-and-user-commands\/cleanup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:18:45","slug":"cleanup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/10-standard-services\/cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purpose:<\/h3>\n
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Delete files from a specified directory based on file age, the maximum number of files, and disk usage percentage.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Enter:<\/h3>\n
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cleanup<\/strong> <max_age> <max_files> <“file_filter”> [percent] [-r]<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Where:<\/h3>\n
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max_age<\/td>\nSpecify the maximum file age in days.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
max_files<\/td>\nSpecify the maximum number of files to keep.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
file_filter<\/td>\nSpecify a pathname and file filter enclosed in quotes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
percent<\/td>\nOptional. Specify the minimum disk percent used before cleanup is executed. Default value is 0.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-r<\/td>\nOptional. Specify recursion for subdirectories.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Example:<\/h3>\n
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cleanup<\/strong> 7 100 “\/data\/compressed\/1999*.hst”<\/p>\n

The above command removes files in the \/data\/compressed\/ directory which have the .hst extender and begin with 1999, if the files are older than 7 days and if the number exceeds 100. If the number of files exceeds 100, the oldest ones are removed until only 100 are left.<\/p>\n

cleanup<\/strong> 7 1000 “\/data\/compressed\/1999*.hst”<\/p>\n

The above command removes all files in the \/data\/compressed\/ directory which have the .hst extender, begin with 1999, and are older than 7 days. If the number of files exceeds 1000, the oldest ones are removed until only 1000 are left.<\/dd>\n

\ncleanup<\/strong> 7 1000 “\/data\/compressed\/1999*.hst” percent=50<\/p>\n

The above command removes all files in the \/data\/compressed\/ directory which have the .hst extender, begin with 1999, and are older than 7 days if the percentage of disk space used is greater than 50. Oldest files are removed until only 1000 are left.<\/p>\n

cleanup<\/strong> 7 100 “\/data\/hold\/n*” -r<\/p>\n

The above command removes n* files in the \/data\/hold\/ directory and its subdirectories that are older than 7 days, up to a maximum of 100 files in all.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Notes:<\/h3>\n
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A log of removed files will be written into a file named \/data\/cleaned_files.YYMMDD<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n
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usercron<\/a>, Usercron Utility<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purpose: Delete files from a specified directory based on file age, the maximum number of files, and disk usage percentage. Enter: cleanup <max_age> <max_files> <“file_filter”> [percent] [-r] Where: max_age Specify the maximum file age in days. max_files Specify the maximum number of files to keep. file_filter Specify a pathname and file filter enclosed in quotes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":1950,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15394,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3485\/revisions\/15394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}