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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help to find the files under a directory Post 302249800 by radoulov on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 06:21:02 AM
Old 10-22-2008
Other options:

[for find without the maxdepth option]

Code:
find /apps/tmp/. \( -name . -o -prune \) \
  -type f -mtime +13 -exec rm {} +

You may need to modify the code for some old versions of find that do not support the above syntax:

Code:
find /apps/tmp/. \( -name . -o -prune \) \
  -type f -mtime +13 | xargs rm

Note: the above will break if the filenames contain spaces, embedded new lines or other pathological characters and you should switch to the inefficient -exec rm {} \; or modify the IFS.

If you are lucky (i.e. you have zsh):

(. is for regular files, you may need to add some modifiers if you want to delete links and sockets too)

Code:
rm -- /apps/tmp/*(.Nmw+2)

With Perl:

Code:
perl -e'unlink grep { -f and -M > 13 } glob("/apps/tmp/*")'

You should modify the glob to include the dot-files.
Last edited by radoulov; 10-22-2008 at 08:17 AM..
 

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DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES

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	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
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OPTIONS

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	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
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