If the version of find being used supports it, I usually use the -delete option as it is usually even faster. Implementations differ but usually the -exec option of find does a fork() and then an execvp(), and then waits on the child process. It starts a child process for each file which makes it slow. xargs does the same thing but calls vfork() and concatenates the argument list and usually only creates one child process. The -delete option simply does an rmdir() or unlink() as it is walking the filesystem tree and it is usually as fast or faster than xargs in my experience. Also by using -delete you don't run into the number of arguments hard limit that xargs imposes (or rather execvp(3)). By default, -delete deletes both files and directories, so if the intention is only to delete files, the -type parameter must also be specified. Of course, if it is a script that is being run often, it doesn't hurt to profile and determine which is best.
I need to find files that have the ending of .out and that are older than 20 days. However, I cannot use find as I do not want to search in the directories that are underneath the directory that I am searching in.
How can this be done?? Find returns files that I do not want. (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need help in finding files older than x days and creating a single consolidated tar file combining them. Can anyone please provide me a script?
Thanks,
Dawn (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have dummies questions:
My script here can find the files in any directories older than 30 days then it will delete the files but not the directories. I would like to also be able to delete the directories that hold old files more than 30 days not just the files itself.
find . -type f... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have two queries.
1) I want to see the list of folders which were created 29 days ago.
2) I want to see the folders in which last created file is older than 29 days.
Can it be done?
Thank you in advance
Anushree (4 Replies)
What command arguments I can use in unix to list files older than 10 days in my current directory, but I don't want to list the hidden files.
find . -type f -mtime +15 -print will work but, it is listing all the hidden files., which I don't want. (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I know the separate commands for finding files greater than 30 days and finding files greater than 1GB.
How do I combine these two commands?
Meaning how do I find files which are > 1GB and older than 30 days?
;) (4 Replies)
Hi
I'm trying to writte a script (crontab) to copy files from one location to another... this is what i have:
find . -name "VPN_CALLRECORD_20130422*" | xargs cp "{}" /home/sysadm/patrick_temp/
but that is not working this is the ouput:
cp: Target... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Problem Statement:Find all log files under all file systems older than 2 days and zip them. Find all zip files older than 3days and remove them. Also this has to be set under cron.
I have a concerns here
find . -mtime +2 -iname "*.log" -exec gzip {}
Not sure if this will work as... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple files in my log folder. e.g:
a_m1.log
b_1.log
c_1.log
d_1.log
b_2.log
c_2.log
d_2.log
e_m1.log
a_m2.log
e_m2.log
I need to keep latest 10 instances of each file.
I can write multiple find commands but looking if it is possible in one line.
m file are monthly... (4 Replies)
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delete_directory
delete directory(1m) delete directory(1m)NAME
delete directory - Deletes a directory
SYNOPSIS
cdscp delete directory directory-name
ARGUMENTS
The full name of the directory.
DESCRIPTION
The delete directory command deletes a directory. The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers. The
master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell. Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas.
Privilege Required
You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory.
The server principal needs administer permission to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the
directory you intend to delete.
NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.
EXAMPLE
The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m)
delete directory(1m)