Sap job to delete OS level files

Hello SAP Admins,
I have a question: is there a sap job that can delete files from OS level, to prevent the file system to become full.
Thank you
Chris

Hi Chris,
As such there is no standard job to remove OS level files.
You may write some abap program which contains execution of OS level commands.
You may schedule this ABAP program based on your requirement to cleanup the files at OS level.
We had done it for cleaning up interface files at one of our customers.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

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