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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers problem deleting multiple files using rm in UNIX Post 302562377 by bquattrone on Thursday 6th of October 2011 05:14:53 PM
Old 10-06-2011
Data problem deleting multiple files using rm in UNIX

I'm baffled..... the system I work on creates files every Mon-Friday
I'm trying to delete all files older than 30 days old from a Unix prompt, the command I'm using is:

find /directory/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

however it returns /directory/filename: 644 mode ? (y/n) for every file! In most directories I have 50+ files.... But, if I log in (same userid) thru a FTP program and highlight all the files I want to delete it deletes them (the ftp program shows: DELETE file | RM file)

How can I delete multiple files from a Unix prompt without getting the '644 mode' response for everyfile? Thanks!!!
 

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DH_FIXPERMS(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_FIXPERMS(1)

NAME
dh_fixperms - fix permissions of files in package build directories SYNOPSIS
dh_fixperms [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem] DESCRIPTION
dh_fixperms is a debhelper program that is responsible for setting the permissions of files and directories in package build directories to a sane state -- a state that complies with Debian policy. dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644. It also changes the permissions of all man pages to mode 644. It removes group and other write permission from all files. It removes execute permissions from any libraries, headers, Perl modules, or desktop files that have it set. It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4). Finally, it removes the setuid and setgid bits from all files in the package. When the Rules-Requires-Root field has the (effective) value of binary-targets, dh_fixperms will also reset the ownership of all paths to "root:root". OPTIONS
-Xitem, --exclude item Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from having their permissions changed. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_FIXPERMS(1)
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