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Old 04-27-2008
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If your find doesn't have that option, an example will hardly help?


Code:
find $ORACLE_BASE -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -type f -name "*.dmp" -exec rm {} \;

You can filter the output from find to exclude anything with at least two slashes in it, though:


Code:
find $ORACLE_BASE -mtime +30 -type f -name "*.dmp" -print |
grep -v '/.*/' | xargs -r rm

You might want to try it with "xargs echo rm" for testing.

The number of slashes obviously depends on the number of slashes in $ORACLE_BASE -- two would be correct for the current directory. (ORACLE_BASE=.)