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Deleting files in Linux that are x-days old

Since I’m not running a PHP version provided by my distribution I’m responsible for cleaning up old session files myself. Aside from PHP another Perl webapp I run also doesn’t clean up its own session files. Luckily cleaning up these old files is something that’s very easy to do under Linux. find /tmp/sess_* -mtime +2 …

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Find and replace in multiple files with sed

Nice usage of find and sed to find and replace text. I used it to update the copyright notices in my projects. Just change the *.pl part to the file type you want. find . -name “*.pl” -exec sed -i “s/2012/2013/g” ‘{}’ \; Source: Wikia

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