On 12/15/19 6:22 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
Yesterday I put this command in root's crontab:
# remove all files in /tmp not modified in 7 days daily at 1:20
20 1 * * * find /tmp -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm -f { } ';'
It is not working as I expected since there are files in /tmp as old
as last
August. There are also old directories not modified for months.
First of all, directories won't be affected because you specified '-f',
although I would expect files in those directories to be affected.
Second, what happens if you run it yourself (as root)? Try replacing the
-exec ... with -print to make sure your test arguments are finding the
files you expect.
Should I put this in a shell script and use 'test' first? Would the old
subdirectories removal be fixed by changing the rm option to -rf without
adversely affecting the results?
Regards,
Rich
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