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Re: error report from recipe

2007-08-24 01:31:54
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:25:12PM -0600, LuKreme wrote:

On 23-Aug-2007, at 15:53, Dallman Ross wrote:

Or if that's no good, you could use find.

   rm -f dummy `find ~/mail/backup -maxdepth 1 -type f -name  
'msg.*' -mtime +7`


   find ~/mail/backup -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'msg.*' -mtime +7 - 
delete

(for any reasonably modern find)

Eh?

   10:26am [/var/tmp/.dman] 552[0]> find . -mtime +30 -delete
  find: -delete: unknown option
  
   10:26am [/var/tmp/.dman] 553[1]> gfind . -mtime +30 -delete
  gfind: invalid predicate `-delete'


I suppose you meant something like this:
  
  [84.169.205.184 -> panix5] {dman} [0.44]
   10:26am [/var/tmp/.dman] 554[1]> find . -mtime +30 -execdir rm '{}' \;


However, it is my understanding that that performs the exec on each
individual file and is therefore much less efficient than a command
executed on multiple file args at once.  I could be mistaken in this
belief, but that's what I've heard.

dman
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