Hi Christoph, > > I think these lines > > cd $dir > > db4.6_archive | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f (1) > > cd - > > might be replaced with > > db4.6_archive -h $dir -d (2) > > -d is not what you want. It removes the logfiles which can be deleted > after backing them up. What we want is to remove empty files. So your
Oh I see. I though that "no longer in use" and "no longer needed" are equivalent. Thanks for the clarification. :-) > line would be equivalent to: > > db4.6_archive | xargs rm -f (3) > > The correct replacement I think is > > db4.6_archive -h $dir | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm -f (4) Are you sure???? I think commands (3) and (4) do the same in essence. The only differences are that (3) processes the current dir (what is definitely differs from (2)) and in (3) xargs starts rm even its if standard input is empty. But db4.6_archive do the same thing in (3) and (4): it prints some filenames of the given directory. I guess (4) is equalt to (2). Anyway I've changed my cron job to use (4). Regards Gabor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
