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Old 08-22-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is online now Forum Staff  
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a start
Code:
while read value
do
     eval $value
done < file
for ext in $(echo $extn1 | tr -s ',' ' ')
do
     find $directory1 -mtime -$purgedays1 -name \*."$ext" -exec rm -f  {} \;
done