topic Re: find in Operating System - HP-UX

find

Tommy Wang — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:57:57 GMT

I got problem in performing the following command line:
% find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm{} ;

Why does it work?

Thanks in advance.

Re: find

Devbinder Singh Marway — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:07:44 GMT

after the last } you need a space and backslash
i.e find ..... rm{} ;

Re: find

John Palmer — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:08:13 GMT

Why does it work? or why doesn't it work?
What exactly is your problem?

The command
'find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;'

will remove files in the current directory (and any sub-directories) which have a modified time earlier than 31 days from now.

Re: find

Devbinder Singh Marway — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:10:07 GMT

oops i may have the wrong end of the stick , do you want to know how it works ? or why doesn't it work ? ( too early... )

thanks

Re: find

federico_3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:10:40 GMT

The command you should run is:

find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm{} ;

Federico

Re: find

federico_3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:17:01 GMT

sorry i forgot......

find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm{} ;

Re: find

federico_3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:20:23 GMT

it seems that the back slash command before ";" can't be written

Re: find

Tommy Wang — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:29:05 GMT

# ll |wc
84 749 5875
# find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec {} ;
# ll |wc
84 749 5875

I run the above command, but it doesn't work.

Re: find

John Palmer — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:43:44 GMT

Kenny,

The 'rm' is missing from your last post, is that a typo?

Specifying a null command to '-exec' will not give an error and will do nothing.

What are the dates on your files?

I assume that the backslash has been eaten by the system. You need to type two(//) to get one on this forum.

Regards,
John

Re: find

federico_3 — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:45:01 GMT

try :

find . -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm

I hope this helps

Re: find

Tommy Wang — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:47:16 GMT

Thank you all for looking at this problem.

Re: find

wagley 2 10-18 — Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:29:47 GMT

Hi all,

The backslash will be fixed in the next release scheduled for late October. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and for being so patient.

Kind regards,

Shayne Wagley
ITRC Forums Administrator
Hewlett-Packard