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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command with wildcard directory Post 302533067 by srini0603 on Wednesday 22nd of June 2011 04:44:42 PM
Old 06-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
If you'd only said "dozens" I'd have have suggested this in the first place, but this is dangerous when you have lots of files and folders. There's a limit to how many things one glob can find -- in some shells, no more than a page or two worth.

The version with two finds has no limit at all.

You're only deleting some of the files. If they're not empty, I doubt you really want them deleted.

You'll need to use the two-find version to do this anyway, since it'd be torturous to get the right directory in one find and use it only once. I'll use 0-9, a-f if that worked for you.

Code:
# Find all directories in .../PROD-* beginning with [0-9a-f]
find /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-* -type d -name '[0-9a-f]*' -print -name '*' -prune
while read DIR
do
        # Find files in "${DIR}/PGP", delete them if old enough
        find "${DIR}/PGP" -type f -mtime +2 | xargs -d '\n' echo rm
 
        # Remove these directories only if they're empty
        rmdir "${DIR}/PGP" && rmdir "${DIR}"
# the rmdir's will cause some error messages when they fail, redirect that to /dev/null
done 2> /dev/null

find | xargs rm will run 'rm file1 file2 file3 ...' where find -exec rm would run 'rm file1; rm file2 ; rm file3 ...' so xargs makes it much faster. The -d '\n' is to tell xargs to consider anything but newlines as part of the filename.

The 'echo' is just a test, to print filenames instead of deleting as a test. Remove it once you're sure it's doing what you wanted.
can you tell me a bit more about two finds?

so in my case do I have to give it as 0-9,a-z as it could be anything between 0-9 and a-z as the first letter of the folder. is there any restriction on the # of directories I can search using this wildcard?

also won't the rmdir "${DIR}" delete the full structure? I just need only till the 32 char folder deleted and the rest should be intact.

P.S:
I just confirmed that it will be 32 chars and it will be consistent? so can i use the ??? approach? would that be better?
 

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RMDIR(1)							   User Commands							  RMDIR(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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