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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete a directory after X number of days Post 302451862 by methyl on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:13:30 AM
Old 09-08-2010
@jkhan69
Quote:
find /WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore -type d -mtime +1 | xargs rm -rf
This has exactly the same problem where the first directory found is the parent directory "/WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore" which we can tell from what actually happened had a timestamp older than one day.

The find command would have been better as:
Code:
find /WMID/data/temp/TxTest/Dev/txStore/* -prune -type d -mtime +1

The "*" ensures that we only look at the subdirectories. The "-prune" stops us descending the tree. Thus we only make the decision whether to delete the directory based on the criteria in the original post and only issue one "rm" per deletable tree.

The moral of this story is to test the "find" statement thoroughly before spawning powerful commands like "rm -rf".
 

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