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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Housekeeping Not Working Post 302525215 by annamalai77 on Thursday 26th of May 2011 05:10:32 AM
Old 05-26-2011
Housekeeping Not Working

Hi,

I have a .ksh script which finds all the directories older than 84 days and tries to housekeep. Below is the command used

Code:
find * -depth -type d -ctime +84 -exec rm -rf {} \;

The above command lists all the directories ie child and parent directory in descending order which are more than 84 days old

When the script is executed from unix prompt, it does what it was intended for.

But when the same is executed by calling from another .ksh script on a by a oracle batch scheduler it is deleting only the subfolders and not the parent folder.

Can someone throw some light on this.

Last edited by pludi; 05-26-2011 at 07:46 AM..
 

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a variable assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name genera- tion are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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