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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find command exec error Post 302076398 by pavan_test on Monday 12th of June 2006 11:32:30 PM
Old 06-13-2006
find command exec error
Hi All,

i am writing a shell script in korn shell
which deletes all the files in a directory
once in every 10DAYS.

the directory has different format files.

the script has something like this;


cd /home/data/pavi
echo "Please Enter the Number of Days to search for"
read DAYS
echo "The entered number of days is $DAYS"
DOACTION="rm -rf"
find DD.* -maxdepth 1 -mtime +$DAYS -exec $DOACTION {} \;
find AA.* -maxdepth 1 -mtime +$DAYS -exec $DOACTION {} \;

the script is working fine DD.* extension.

But for those files with AA.* extension i am getting the following
error message;

pav.ksh[33]: find: Argument list too long.
there are total 22,309 files with AA.* extension.

can anyone please suggest me the best approach here,

thanks
pavi
 

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NAME

       suspicious-source - search for files that are not the GPL's "preferred form of modification"

SYNOPSIS

       suspicious-source [options]

DESCRIPTION

       suspicious-source  is  a script that outputs a list of files which are not common source files.	This should be run in the root of a source
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