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Operating Systems AIX Removing a filename which has special characters passed from a pipe with xargs Post 302317504 by jerardfjay on Tuesday 19th of May 2009 07:08:11 AM
Old 05-19-2009
Removing a filename which has special characters passed from a pipe with xargs
Hi,

On AIX 5200-07-00 I have a find command as following to delete files from a certain location that are more than 7 days old. I am being told that I cannot use -exec option to delete files from these directories.
Having said that I am more curious to know how this can be done.

an sample file name could be something as follows

Code:
12345678盇BCDEFGH,11T北北北北N盇DSKFHADFH盧,FR盬碒盪P北北北北北北北盋ASDFAS123

When I use the following command

Code:
find /history_directory -mtime +7 | xargs -I {} rm -fr {}

I get the message that states that an end quote is missing as follows

Code:
xargs: 0402-060 An end quote is missing from the string:

I am assuming it is because of the single quote in the file name.

When I try the following command in the directory where the file is located.

Code:
find . | xargs grep \'

I get the same results

Code:
xargs: 0402-060 An end quote is missing from the string:

How do I resolve this issue and make the above find command work?
Please advise.

Thx
Jerardfjay
Last edited by jerardfjay; 05-19-2009 at 08:19 AM.. Reason: More information
 

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strclean

strclean(1M)															      strclean(1M)

NAME

       strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files

SYNOPSIS

       logdir] age]

DESCRIPTION

       cleans  the  STREAMS  error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7).	If
       the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory.  If  the	option	is  not  used  to  specify
       another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days.

   Options
       recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:

       Specifies a directory for the location of the
		      STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory

       Specifies a maximum age in days for the
		      STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3.  The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3.

EXAMPLES

       Remove day-old error log files from a directory called

FILES

       One or more error log file or files on which	 operates.   The  mm-dd  in  the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
							 tained in the file.

       NLS catalog for

SEE ALSO

       strerr(1M), strlog(7).

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