Shell Programming and Scripting

Hio, So I have a crontab delete of older files setup. This script works fine if I run them by each individual directory.
Problem is there are so many thousands of files and hundreds of directories and sub directories that I need to recursively have it go through and delete files by directory instead of doing the "\*\*\" method. Right now I get errors when this runs unless I go through each folder and run the command by folder.
How can I modify the below to go through all folders under the "audit" folder and run the same delete command? I saw the ls -1R command but wasnt %100 sure how to implement it.

Code:

 * * * * * find /prod/app/$LOGNAME/data/audit/*/*/*.pdf -type f -name '*.pdf' -mtime +120 -exec rm {} \;

I'm not sure if I completely understand your problem, but you might want to try using xargs:

Code:

find /prod/app/$LOGNAME/data/audit/ -name "*.pdf" -type f -mtime +120 | xargs -n1 rm

If you "get errors", please post sample error messages.

I'm concerned that you appear to be running this cron once every minute when it is the sort of cron you might run once a day or once a week. I suspect that you will have multiple copies of the cron running concurrently which will be anarchy!

The reply by Subbeh is much better use of find syntax because find not Shell expands the wildcards.

Please remember to post what Operating System and version you have and what Shell you are using. There is much variation in the find command and your original syntax would be invalid on many versions of unix and could generate a command which is too long on others.