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Run Laravel Scheduled Tasks on Windows

The following are instructions for running scheduled tasks defined in a Laravel project on Windows. The Laravel documentation provides instructions for running scheduled tasks using cron jobs on Linux systems. However, cron jobs are not available on Windows. The built-in Windows Task Scheduler can be used to run scheduled tasks instead.

Create a Scheduled Task

1. Open Task Scheduler
2. Select Create Task...
3. Give the task a name and description
4. To run the task in the background, select Run whether the user is logged on or not and check the Hidden checkbox.

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<?php

/**
 * A simple function that uses mtime to delete files older than a given age (in seconds)
 * Very handy to rotate backup or log files, for example...
 * 
 * $dir String whhere the files are
 * $max_age Int in seconds
 * return String[] the list of deleted files
 */