02-27-2002
I think that find is better that ls command.
example to find archives with more that 10 days and delete them :
find /directore -mtime +10 -type f -exec rm {} \;
or
find / -mtime +10 -name "core" -type f -exec rm {} \;
or another option with ls command :
ls -r core* | xargs rm
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NAME
debian/patches/script.dpatch - self applying patch
SYNOPSIS
debian/patches/script.dpatch -patch [directory]
debian/patches/script.dpatch -unpatch [directory]
debian/patches/script.dpatch -pkg-custom [directory]
DESCRIPTION
A dpatch is a program that modifies the source tree in a given directory. How it does that is entirely up to the person writing it. It can
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