Hey folks,
OK, I think I've got the dunce hat on today, and I'm about to
go crazy with this one.
I have a script on an OpenBSD 3.7-STABLE machine that does
a find in a directory, and uses rm to remove files older than
two days (where RETAIN = +2) :
find /path/to/dir -type f -name \*.gz
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, C. Bensend wrote:
Hey folks,
OK, I think I've got the dunce hat on today, and I'm about to
go crazy with this one.
I have a script on an OpenBSD 3.7-STABLE machine that does
a find in a directory, and uses rm to remove files older than
two days (where RETAIN =
Something like this should work (compare some of th examples of the man
page):
find /path/to/dir -name .ssh -type d -prune -or \
-type f -name \*.gz -mtime ${RETAIN} -exec rm {} \;
Thank you very much, Otto. That works just fine. It's greatly
appreciated!
Benny
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I'd rather
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:33:30PM -0500, C. Bensend wrote:
find /path/to/dir -name .ssh -type d -prune -or \
-type f -name \*.gz -mtime ${RETAIN} -exec rm {} \;
Thank you very much, Otto. That works just fine. It's greatly
appreciated!
Well, even if it helped, I can't reproduce
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:33:30PM -0500, C. Bensend wrote:
find /path/to/dir -name .ssh -type d -prune -or \
-type f -name \*.gz -mtime ${RETAIN} -exec rm {} \;
Thank you very much, Otto. That works just fine. It's greatly
appreciated!
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 22:19 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
find /home/kili -maxdepth 1 -type f -name \* -mtime +1 -exec echo {} \; |
grep ssh
This test is irrelevant to the OP's problem.
yields no output at all. [And of course, I *do* have a .ssh directory.]
But do you have *files* (-type f)
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