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[Solved] Issue with deleting files through find

Hi, I have a script similar to this #!/bin/ksh cd /orcl/bir/eod_badfiles find ./ -type f -name "*.csv" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} \; find ./ -type f -name "*.bad" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} \; cd /orcl/bir find ./ -type f -name "*.log" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} \; This was working fine in one...

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Find command to find a word from list of files

I need to find a word '% Retail by State' in the folder /usr/sas/reports/RetailSalesTaxallocation. When I tried like below, -bash-4.1$ cd /usr/sas/reports/RetailSalesTaxallocation -bash-4.1$ find ./ -name % Retail by State find: paths must precede expression: Retail Usage: find ...

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TAC(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            TAC(1)

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       tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

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DESCRIPTION

       Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

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find . -name '*.req' -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; not deleting files

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