On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:51:18 +0000, Len Rugen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Sunday, November 9, 2025, 7:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin >><[email protected]> wrote: >>I have a directory tree containing a mixture of source and >>product files. All the products are newer than any source. >> find dir itype f -mtime -xxx -exec rm {} \; >How can you tell what is a product file? This doesn't make any sense in UNIX nor z/OS. From the word "product", I'm guessing can only guess this refers to an SMP/e install. I'm guessing that "source" is a symlink (think pds member alias) to a real file (think member name). SMP/e entity names have a max length of 8 characters but Unix file names are often much longer thus you have the real file name to meet the 8 character SMP/e limitation and SMP/e defined SYMLINKs that allow UNIX to use the long names. If my assumption is right, then don't delete the files unless you want to corrupt SMP/e. Instead, use SMP/e ++DELETE to delete the product or specific files. It should automatically delete the associated SYMLINKs when the file has been deleted. If my assumption is wrong, then we'll need clarification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
