08-24-2008
Add -type f to only delete files and not directories matching the criteria.
I don't think the lack of a backslash is the explanation. If you mean the one before the ; it's required to pass through a literal semicolon; you could equivalently put the semicolon in single quotes, for example, to prevent the shell from interpreting it as a command separator. What you see with set -v or equivalent is what actually gets executed after quoting and backslash substitutions have been processed by the shell.
I would assume that the reason the directory gets removed is that it meets the criteria you have, plain and simple. Its modification time will be updated when you delete files in it so specifying -depthfirst if your find has that might also be a workaround.
ls is not a good test case because it's hard to see when it's listing files in the directory vs when it's listing the whole directory. Adding the -d option would help disambiguate, or you could simply use echo for debugging.
Last edited by era; 08-24-2008 at 02:49 PM..
Reason: -depthfirst and echo suggestions
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NWDIR(1) nwdir NWDIR(1)
NAME
nwdir - Lists files in directory
SYNOPSIS
nwdir [-h] [-v] [-l] [-t] [-d] [-e] [-f] [directory]
DESCRIPTION
nwdir lists files, directories and their attributes from the specified NetWare directory.
OPTIONS
-h
-h is used to print out a short help text.
-d
List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.
-l
Show filename in all available namespaces.
-v
Verbose listing, display everything possible.
-e
Display OS/2 Extended Attributes.
-f
List connections using each file.
-t
Show all informations (rights, attributes, file inodes) also as hexadecimal numbers.
directory
You can specify the directory to list. Current working directory is used by default. You have to specify path in Linux format, not in
NetWare format.
EXAMPLES
nwdir -t -v /NetWare/server/sys
With this example, all files from directory /NetWare/server/sys are displayed.
AUTHORS
nwdir was written by Milan Vandrovec. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors.
BUGS
Directory quotas are not displayed. User names are not taken from NDS, but only from bindery.
nwdir 4/2/1998 NWDIR(1)