find cmd to avoid nfs and rm core

[James OReilly]

I'm using the find cmd to find cores and them compress them to be looked at a later time.

The problem I'm having is trying to rm the compressed core after 7 days. The find cmd just prints the file name but does not rm the core.Z file.

cmd that is failing:
/bin/find / -type f -name core.Z -mtime +7 -print -o -fstype nfs -prune -exec rm {} \;

If I run the same cmd but pipe it to a while read statement it does rm the core.Z file.

cmd that works:
/bin/find / -type f -name core.Z -mtime +7 -print -o -fstype nfs -prune | while read name
do
rm "$name"
done

Thanks,
Jim

[Alzhy · Accepted solution]

find / -fsonly vxfs ...

[harry d brown jr]

What are you trying to "OR" (-o) ?? Use parens to get what you want:

find / -type f -name core.Z \( -mtime +7 -o -fstype nfs \) -exec rm {} \;

-prune is not necessary if you are specifiying that you want only "files" (-type f).

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harry