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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List and Delete Files which are older than 7 days, but have white spaces in file name Post 302942244 by karumudi7 on Sunday 26th of April 2015 06:29:01 PM
Old 04-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I don't understand why you thought you needed grep -iv ABC if you just wanted to toss the contents of the directory named ABC...

Does this work with your new requirements?
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec rm {} + \)

I thought grep -v will eliminate the required directories as we will have the long listing. It doesn't work.

The above one looks working, I just modified the given one like below so that it can list and then remove.

Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec rm {} \;)

Hope this is correct, I cant test it - because if some thing went wrong I may messup the file system. Hence asking whether it is ok or not.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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