On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:35:01PM +0530, Arvind wrote:
> i tried from +10 to +250, nothing works.
> basically, its a maildir and i have mails from last year october till date.
> i want to give the user mails from feb onwards as mails older than feb are
> inconsenquential and hence, i want to delete files which are older than feb
> 1st 2003.
> 
> Arvind
> 
>  a sample output
> 
> # find . -mtime +20|ls -l|more
> total 675832
> -rw-------    1 1091     postdrop     3418 Oct 25 18:53
> 1035552085.17296_40.mail.domain.com:2,S
> -rw-------    1 1091     postdrop    64719 Oct 25 18:56
> 1035552365.17366_27.mail.domain.com:2,S
> -rw-------    1 1091     postdrop     9959 Oct 25 18:59
> 1035552576.17396_16.mail.domain.com:2,S
> -rw-------    1 1091     postdrop    15830 Oct 25 19:01
> 1035552576.17396_54.mail.domain.com:2,S

LOL.

Check this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(1) mkdir /tmp/a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(2) cd /tmp/a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/a]:(3) touch b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/a]:(4) find . -name b
./b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/a]:(5) find . -name c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp/a]:(6) find . -name c | ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 binand   binand          0 Mar  6 14:50 b

You figured what you are doing wrong?

Binand

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