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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete log files automatically. Post 302658487 by methyl on Tuesday 19th of June 2012 10:17:12 AM
Old 06-19-2012
There is an extra space character on the line just before exec making the parameter not read as -exec and thus messing up the syntax.

Btw. The command looks a bit ruthless and may not behave as you expect. You have no -type f parameter so this could delete directory trees. I've never had any success with using -atime because my backup software changes that timestamp, and prefer to use -mtime instead.

I have never had reason to issue rm -rf in a script. It is particularly dangerous in timestamp-based processing when the timestamp on a top-level directory is older than the timestamp of the child directories.
For example I have just looked at a mature system where the timestamp on /usr is six years ago.

Last edited by methyl; 06-19-2012 at 11:28 AM.. Reason: additional paragraph
 

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RCSFREEZE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      RCSFREEZE(1)

NAME
rcsfreeze - freeze a configuration of sources checked in under RCS SYNOPSIS
rcsfreeze [name] DESCRIPTION
rcsfreeze assigns a symbolic revision number to a set of RCS files that form a valid configuration. The idea is to run rcsfreeze each time a new version is checked in. A unique symbolic name (C_number, where number is increased each time rcsfreeze is run) is then assigned to the most recent revision of each RCS file of the main trunk. An optional name argument to rcsfreeze gives a symbolic name to the configuration. The unique identifier is still generated and is listed in the log file but it will not appear as part of the symbolic revision name in the actual RCS files. A log message is requested from the user for future reference. The shell script works only on all RCS files at one time. All changed files must be checked in already. Run rcsclean(1) first and see whether any sources remain in the current directory. FILES
RCS/.rcsfreeze.ver version number RCS/.rcsfreeze.log log messages, most recent first AUTHOR
Stephan v. Bechtolsheim SEE ALSO
co(1), rcs(1), rcsclean(1), rlog(1) BUGS
rcsfreeze does not check whether any sources are checked out and modified. Although both source file names and RCS file names are accepted, they are not paired as usual with RCS commands. Error checking is rudimentary. rcsfreeze is just an optional example shell script, and should not be taken too seriously. See CVS for a more complete solution. GNU
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