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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Housekeeping Not Working Post 302525311 by cero on Thursday 26th of May 2011 10:40:23 AM
Old 05-26-2011
finds first argument usually is the path where to start the search. You have * as first argument so all entries in your current working directory are passed as argument.
If you want your script to start searching in the current directory use the dot or even better use the absolute path where to start (especially when you execute rm on hits).
Code:
find . -depth -type d -ctime +84 -exec rm -rf {} \;

or
Code:
find /path/to/D1 -depth -type d -ctime +84 -exec rm -rf {} \;


Last edited by cero; 05-26-2011 at 11:46 AM..
 

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pwd(1T) 						       Tcl Built-In Commands							   pwd(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory SYNOPSIS
pwd _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory. EXAMPLE
Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli- cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimises user confusion. The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run: set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar] set savedDir [pwd] cd /tmp exec tar -xf $tarFile cd $savedDir SEE ALSO
file(1T), cd(1T), glob(1T), filename(1T) KEYWORDS
working directory ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl pwd(1T)
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