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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers rm command issue Post 302594835 by gary_w on Wednesday 1st of February 2012 10:27:51 AM
Old 02-01-2012
Good points Methyl. There may have been some confusion regarding my comment to do a -print before doing a rm to make sure the find is finding what you expect before removing anything. And lets not background the process, to eliminate that being an issue. So to combine suggestions, do this to restrict to the top level directory then:
Code:
find /apps/server/* -type d -prune -o -type f -name "*.txt" -mtime +7 -print

Before doing this:
Code:
find /apps/server/* -type d -prune -o -type f -name "*.txt" -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

to verify what find is finding first.

Tip to save a process: instead of this:
Code:
ps -ef|grep "find"|grep -v "grep"

do this:
Code:
ps -ef|grep "[f]ind"

which matches the string but not itself.
 

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XltCheckArgSize(3X)													       XltCheckArgSize(3X)

NAME
XltCheckArgSize - Convenience macro for asserting that an ArgList is large enough. SYNOPSIS
#include <Xlt/Xlt.h> void XltCheckArgSize(a, n) Arg a[]; Cardinal n; DESCRIPTION
XltCheckArgSize simply asserts (using assert(3)) that a contains at least n elements. This macro will generally be used with arrays of Arg but it will work with any array (such as arrays of strings that you are about to pass to execvp(3) and execv(3)). If you've ever debugged a stack corruption because you said "Arg a[3]" when you meant "Arg a[4]", you'll understand why you want to use this macro. Note that the a parameter must be an array, a pointer will not work. RETURN VALUE
None but it may cause abort(3) to be called. SEE ALSO
XltGetValues(3X), XltSetValues(3X), assert(3). XltCheckArgSize(3X)
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