Error While Purging Files

svishh123 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007

find /filearchive/ -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm weblogs*.log {} \;

This worked only if this comand is executed int he unix comand prompt, but when i put this in the shell script it is not recognizing the file.It says weblogs: No such file or directory

Am i doing anything wrong here ?

Shell_Life · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007

svish,
Your "find" statement is not correct.
See a proper version:

Code:

find /filearchive/ -type f -name 'weblogs*.log' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

svishh123 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007

Shell,

Actually this option removes the fiels first and then doing a FInd over that.What is required is have to find the list of such files and then remove them.
Can i pipe the find results to rm ?

ghostdog74 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007

have you tried the command yet? try it first before posting

porter · #5 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by svishh123

Can i pipe the find results to rm ?

find directory -print | xargs -n 20 rm

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