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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there an efficient way in finding and deleting files? Post 302197382 by guruparan18 on Wednesday 21st of May 2008 12:58:28 AM
Old 05-21-2008
Is there an efficient way in finding and deleting files?

Hi

I have a script to find and delete the files which are say, noDaysOld, I am interested to find the number of such files I am fniding for deleting and then deleting it.

So, the script I wrote, first finds the number of such files and then deletes, clearly this is two different steps.

Step 1:
Code:
 noOfFiles=$(find $dirPath -type f -ctime $noDaysOld  | wc -l)

And the $noOfFiles gets an entry in log.

Step 2:
Code:
find $dirPath -type f  -ctime $noDaysOld  -exec rm -f {} \;

The interesting question is, is there one single step which does all this?

Another point is, how can we write the command in step 2 with "xargs"? Will the command performs better with xargs? Smilie
 

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