How can you delete specific files in /temp in site server?

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My site is experiencing Internal server Errors, website shutdowns and the main cause is a full /temp directory. The support gave us a list of large temp files that come with a size exceeding 1 GB. Is there any way to delete specific files in /temp?

ls -lah /tmp

I've used this code to go to my /temp file. How can I delete specific files in it?

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '21 at 10:24

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Change directory to tmp - cd /tmp

And delete specific files - rm -f specific.file.name

answered Jun 03 '21 at 10:24

Vitaliy

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this is what I needed! Thanks a lot! – Wilmar Cruz Jun 03 '21 at 11:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '21 at 10:40

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You can use find for that:

find /temp -size +1G -delete

This means the following:

/temp     : location of the search (subfolders are searched too)
-size +1G : the size should be larger than 1Gb
-delete   : once such a file is found, delete it.

answered Jun 03 '21 at 10:40

Dominique

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How can you delete specific files in /temp in site server?

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