topic Re: remove in Operating System - HP-UX

remove

tom quach_1 — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:12:31 GMT

Hi all,

i just want this script to search for files only and remove it, not goes down to folder level.
can someone help please.
Thanks,
Tom

$find /tmp –mtime +8 –exec rm {} \;

Re: remove

Mel Burslan — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:19:12 GMT

if you do not want to delete the files under the directories just at the /tmp level

cd /tmp
for file in `ls -1`
do
if [ -f ${file} ]
then
rm $file
fi
done

this should do it. A bit longer but safe way of removing only regular files not anything else.

Re: remove

Pete Randall — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:21:38 GMT

find /tmp/* -prune -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;

I think that gives what you want!

Pete

Re: remove

Mel Burslan — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:21:53 GMT

sorry.. I did not notice the 8 days modification time part. I am not sure right off the top of my head not to incorporate it into my little code snippet

Re: remove

Pete Randall — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:24:06 GMT

Better yet:

find /tmp/* -prune -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;

Try it with ll instead of rm first.

Pete

Re: remove

tom quach_1 — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:47:51 GMT

thanks-Mel and Pete.

Pete, that is what i am looking for

Thanks all.

Regards,
Tom

Re: remove

Pete Randall — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 05:25:19 GMT

I just noticed that I cut and pasted the exact same command. Meant to say:

find /tmp/* -type f -prune -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;

Pete

Re: remove

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:10:38 GMT

You can also try as,

$cd /tmp;find . $ -name . $ -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \;

or

$cd /tmp;find . $ -name . $ -mtime +8 | xargs rm -f

hth.

Re: remove

Bill Hassell — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:40:19 GMT

Just to protect unwanted files from getting deleted, I always code the -exec rm as -exec echo rm so I can see what will happen without actually removing anything. If it works correctly, then repeat the command without the echo.