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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Issue with deleting files through find Post 302831159 by rangarasan on Wednesday 10th of July 2013 10:19:29 AM
Old 07-10-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gangadhar Reddy
I'm new to unix. I would like to ignore the error. Probably that's better as in other environments there will be other subdirectories.

So u mean to say, I've to do this way. I hope it will ignore any permission denied error and proceed ahead. Also this is running through Autosys job so I hope the job will turn successful.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cd /orcl/bir/eod_badfiles
find ./ -type f -name "*.csv" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {}  2> /dev/null \; 
find ./ -type f -name "*.bad" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \; 
cd /orcl/bir
find ./ -type f -name "*.log" -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;

---------- Post updated at 09:45 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:29 AM ----------



This is not working. It is giving error.
Code:
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]

---------- Post updated at 09:46 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:45 AM ----------

Can someone please help with this request?
You can use maxdepth option in find command to search in current directory only.

Cheers!
-R
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