From: Mohamed Kamal (mohamed.kamal@SPDC.COM.EG)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 17:33:51 EST
Dear Stephen,
you have to use the negation with the expression ( -type d ). So the command will be like that
find /stephen ! -type d -prune -o -mtime +10 -exec rm -ef {}\;
Best Regards
Mohammed Kamal
Systems Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Mon, November 17, 2003 10:38 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Help with the find command
All,
I'm writing a script to clean up files under a certain
directory that are over a certain amount of time old.
I'm using the find command to do this. However, I do
not want the find command to traverse any
subdirectories underneath the directory that I've
specified. I don't want to have to name each and every
subdirectory under the directory that's being cleaned
up.
Here's an example of what I'm doing. The directory
name is /stephen. This directory has a bunch of files
under it and two subdirectories: /stephen/files and
/stephen/tmp. I want the find command to completely
ignore /stephen/files and /stephen/tmp and any files
under them, but I want to clean up any files directly
under /stephen that are over 10 days old. Here's the
command that I've been working with:
find /stephen -type d -prune -o -mtime +10 -exec rm
-ef {}\;
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
-Stephen Spalding
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