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05-06-2010 11:56 PM
05-06-2010 11:56 PM
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>if I want to exclude particular directory then what will be the syntax:
Is that directory name unique and do you want to exclude subdirectories too?
find /startdir -name exclude-dir -prune -o -type f -mtime +180 -exec echo rm {} +
Anything in exclude-dir or deeper would be skipped. Remove "echo" after you verified it works.
If that directory wasn't unique, you would need to use -path.
>Pete: find /startdir -type f -mtime +180 |xargs rm
Using "-exec ... +" would be much faster:
find /startdir -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm {} +
I recently had to remove 100,000 messages out of /var/spool/mqueue/ and "-exec ... +" was much faster than xargs. And I was using -n1000.
Is that directory name unique and do you want to exclude subdirectories too?
find /startdir -name exclude-dir -prune -o -type f -mtime +180 -exec echo rm {} +
Anything in exclude-dir or deeper would be skipped. Remove "echo" after you verified it works.
If that directory wasn't unique, you would need to use -path.
>Pete: find /startdir -type f -mtime +180 |xargs rm
Using "-exec ... +" would be much faster:
find /startdir -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm {} +
I recently had to remove 100,000 messages out of /var/spool/mqueue/ and "-exec ... +" was much faster than xargs. And I was using -n1000.
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05-08-2010 11:11 PM
05-08-2010 11:11 PM
Re: Find command to delete files in dir
I have found the solution & hence closing the thread.
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