Shell scripts help - find deletes the base dir.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

My following scripts works but also removes the base directory â log_outputâ which I don't want to remove. How to rectify this script so it should not delete the log_output directory.

#!/usr/bin/sh
nod=60
dir1=/psoft/prcs/log_output

find $dir1 -mtime +$nod -name "_PSDSTSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_PSPRCSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_TUXLOG" -prune -o -print | tee /psoft/log_fstrn8.txt | xargs rm -rf


Thanks,

Gulam.

[Patrick Wallek]

Are you just wanting to delete regular files? If so, just add a '-type f' to your find to search only files.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

No, there are lots of other subdir which I would also like to remove.

Thanks,

Gulam.

[inventsekar_1]

i dont know how to help you, but i think, why dont you create that directory at the end of the script?

[Joseph C. Denman]

Use a /. after the $dir1

find $dir1/. -mtime ..........


you will get an error stating rm: cannot remove .. or ., but all below $dir will be gone.

...jcd...

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi Gulam,

you can explicitly skip it:

...
find $dir1 -mtime +$nod -name "_PSDSTSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_PSPRCSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_TUXLOG" -prune -o -print | tee /psoft/log_fstrn8.txt |
fgrep -vx $dir1 | xargs rm -rf

mfG Peter

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

Hi,

If I changed it to $dir/. then it deltes all files/subdir under log_output just keepling following two pruned subdir

total 108
drwxr-x--- 2 fstrn8 psoft 39936 Jun 7 05:22 _PSDSTSRVLOG
drwxr-x--- 2 fstrn8 psoft 15360 Jun 7 12:34 _PSPRCSRVLOG


Thanks,

Gulam.

[OldSchool]

... or, you can

cd $dir1

find . -mtime +$nod -name "_PSDSTSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_PSPRCSRVLOG" -prune -o -name "_TUXLOG" -prune -o -print | tee /psoft/log_fstrn8.txt | xargs rm -rf

[Bill Hassell]

Or the simplest:

find ${dir1}/* ...rest of options...

${dir1}/* is replaced with a list of all the items in $dir1 but not the directory itself.

[Peter Godron]

Gulam,
do a 'touch $dir1' before you start.