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# 8  
Old 03-15-2010
From the man page of find
Code:
       -prune The primary shall always evaluate as true; it shall  cause  find
	      not  to  descend	the current pathname if it is a directory.  If
	      the -depth primary is specified, the -prune primary  shall  have
	      no effect.
[...]
       -depth The primary shall  always  evaluate  as  true;  it  shall  cause
	      descent  of  the	directory  hierarchy  to  be  done so that all
	      entries in a directory are acted on before the directory itself.
	      If a -depth primary is not specified, all entries in a directory
	      shall be acted on after the directory itself. If any -depth pri-
	      mary  is specified, it shall apply to the entire expression even
	      if the -depth primary would not normally be evaluated.

# 9  
Old 03-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by dsravan

..snip..

But my find is recursively going through all sub-directories. Is there a way to limit it to only the present directory.
Code:
-prune or -depth 1

primaries to find.

You may wish to use the -exec {} + form (or pipe to xargs) rather than the -exec {} ; that you have. Each call to -exec {} ; is a separate shell...

Also consider using -delete instead of -exec rm -rf {} \;

Be careful to quote properly so you are deleting the right files...
# 10  
Old 03-15-2010
prune is also displaying all underneath directories.

depth 1 is giving errors

Quote:
find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments.

find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
I tried

Quote:
find $IRC_PATH -type f -name "${3}*.gz" -mtime +"${4}" -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;

find $IRC_PATH -type f -name "${3}*.gz" -mtime +"${4}" -depth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
# 11  
Old 03-15-2010
-prune needs to refer to something, ie

Code:
find ~ -prune -print

prints just the name of your home directory.

Code:
find ~ -depth 0 -print

does the same but for a different reason. -prune says 'don't descend into the result of the result of the find' and -depth says 'whatever the path is, don't go lower than n'

In your example, this may give you what you expect (depending on the value of $IRC_PATH):

Code:
find $IRC_PATH -depth 1 -type f -name "${3}*.gz" -mtime +"${4}"  -exec ...

These are helpful links for find:

Examples of Usage of Unix Find Command
Unix find command helper
# 12  
Old 03-15-2010
Thanks Drewk. It worked.
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