Re: find, -delete, and relative paths
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:08:56PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail list archives: Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I misunderstand the manpage? I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete a directory. If you do - 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete it should work.. To wrap up, the above suggestion does shush up 'find' WRT absolute vs. realtive pathnames, at least in my case... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: find, -delete, and relative paths
Cyrille Lefevre writes: "Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail list archives: Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I misunderstand the manpage? I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete a directory. If you do - 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete it should work.. 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -depth \! -ctime 1 -delete could be better, deletes file entries before directory ones. PS : -a is not necessary, it's always implied except if -o of course. Look at ports/sysutils/deleted daemon that deletes old files, directories and other -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: find, -delete, and relative paths
"Daniel O'Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail list archives: Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I misunderstand the manpage? I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete a directory. If you do - 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete it should work.. 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -depth \! -ctime 1 -delete could be better, deletes file entries before directory ones. PS : -a is not necessary, it's always implied except if -o of course. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
