Yes you are correct if the script list's the older files from the sub directories also then only /home//db//staging/ should be fine.
Can you please kindly help me out.
Thanks once again
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I was expecting to see a diagnostic for a non-existent pathname, or an unreadable or unsearchable directory to explain the error message you reported on the earlier find command. But, if you need separate lists for the files in /db, /home, and /staging maybe it doesn't matter.
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