rmat: Remove temporary files at a specified time interval from now

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

Send a at job to remove (probably temporary) files in the future with a specified time interval from now

Usage

rmat(..., days = NULL, hours = NULL, minutes = NULL, dry = TRUE)

Arguments

...	Files to be removed
days	Numeric, interval in days
hours	Numeric, interval in hours
minutes	Numeric, interval in minutes
dry	Logical, if set to TRUE, only the command will be returned and files are not really removed.

Details

The command will delete files, and there is usually no way to get deleted files back. So make sure you know what you are doing!

Days, hours, and minutes can be given in a mixed way: they will be summed up to give the interval.

Value

(Invisibly) the output of the at job.

Note

Since the command uses at internally, it is unlikely the command will work in the Windows system “out of box”.

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang <[e-mail]>

See Also

qsystem for running system commands quietly.

Examples

tmp1 <- tempfile()
tmp2 <- tempfile()
rmat(tmp1, tmp2, minutes=1)

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.