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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting the contents of a folder older than X hours Post 302296633 by worchyld on Wednesday 11th of March 2009 01:27:57 PM
Old 03-11-2009
Code:
uname -a

Produces:
Quote:
Linux server1.somesite.com 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.028stab060.2PAE #1 SMP Tue Jan 13 12:31:30 MSK 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Code:
echo $0

Produces:
Quote:
-bash
Code:
find /path/to/data/ -depth ! -name data -type d -ctime 0 -exec echo {} > /path/to/test \;

With my setup produces:
Quote:
find ~/inbounddata/data -depth ! -name data -type d -ctime 0 -exec echo {} > ~/inbounddata/data \;
-bash: /path/to/inbounddata/data: Is a directory
And finally...

Code:
cat /path/to/test

Produces;

Code:
cat ~/inbounddata/data/
cat: /path/to/inbounddata/data/: Is a directory

Last edited by worchyld; 03-11-2009 at 03:55 PM.. Reason: security purposes
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the lessecho command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
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       lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But  any  argument  containing  spaces  is  enclosed	in
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       A summary of options are included below.

       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

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