'ls' command to show the full path name

[Chris Fung]

Hi all,

I am writing a find script to remove the ".log" files found on the system. However, I have difficulties on getting the full path name of the files before piping to "rm" command. Any idea?

Many thanks,

Chris,

[S.K. Chan]

Use "find" for your purpose .. for example ..

# cd /var/tmp
# find . -type f -name "*.log" -exec ll {} \;

It'll list any files with .log extension in /var/tmp in its relative path. So to remove them do ..

# find . -type f -name "*.log" -exec rm {} \;

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You don't need to worry about the long name of the files, the find command takes care of that for you.

# find /myfilesystem -type f -name "*.log" -print -exec rm {} \;

You could also put this into cron to do it automatically should you wish. The example I've shown here is to run the command at 5AM every Sunday. Have a look at the man page on 'cron' for further info.

0 5 * * 0 find /myfilesystem -type f -name "*.log" -print -exec rm {} \;

Cheers
~Michael~

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
As our Pharoahs mentioned it is really good to see the list of files.

For example all my oracle redologfiles have a ".log" extension.
I am to remove without knowing is going to be hard.

Thanks

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Of course we restrict the search and subsequent removal of files to only filesystems that we wish to actually remove the files from. From my example it doesn't choose '/' but a filesystem name of your choice.
Cheers
Michael