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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command with wildcard directory Post 302533036 by srini0603 on Wednesday 22nd of June 2011 03:56:17 PM
Old 06-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I doubt UNIX generates them, I think some application's probably doing so.

"*.*" is a DOS thing, what it amounts to for find isn't "find all files" but "find all files or folders with . in their name". If you want to find all files, leave off -name and try -type f (to limit it to files, by default it prints files and folders alike)

What is your system?

How about:
Code:
# Find all directories in .../PROD-* which are exactly 32 chars long
find /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-* -type d -name '????????????????????????????????' -print -name '*' -prune
while read DIR
do
        find "${DIR}/PGP" -type f -mtime +2
done

The -name '*' prune tells it to not recurse deeper into those folders, which is the job of the second find.
yes yours should work and I also found an other way and changed the code as suggested by you.

Code:
find /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-*/[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]*/PGP -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' \;

find /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-*/[0123456789]*/PGP -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' \;

so the above code will delete the files under folder PGP.

after deleting the files inside PGP I also want is to delete the PGP folder then remove the folder ??????????????????????????????? also.

I can delete the PGP folder using rmdir PGP

I want to know how to handle the 32char folder?
 

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