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Quote:

Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

Code:

find . -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 ! -name "*[Aa][Bb][Cc]*" ! -name "*[Xx][Yy][Zz]*" -exec rm {} \;

Thank you. It worked but I missed my criteria - I need to exclude the "ABC" and "XYZ" directory contents in the above recursive command output. Any idea ?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

I assume that the question was rhetorical and that you already know that it won't work. If I understand what you're trying to do, try this:

Code:

find . -mtime +60 -name '*[.]__*' ! -name '*[aA][bB][cC]*' ! -name '*[xX][yY][zZ]*' -exec echo rm {} +

If the rm command(s) printed look(s) like it(they) do(es) what you want, remove the echo from the find -exec primary to actually remove the selected files.

Based on the above Inputs I framed like below to list and delete the files :

Code:

find . -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 ! -name "*[aA][bB][cC]*" -name "*[xX][yY][zZ]*" -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec rm {} \

But to be clear, I need to exclude "ABC" and "XYZ" directories not file names. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks.

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