Looking more closely at the standard, when using -exec command +, the primary always returns success even if one or more executions of the given command fail. Furthermore, if there are two or more primaries like this, the order in which they are executed is unspecified. (So, the rm commands for a group of files could be executed before, after, or simultaneously with the ls commands for the same or different groups of files.) I don't understand why this would keep the rm commands from working, but it could cause files to be removed before they were listed by ls.
When the echo was in the -exec echo rm ..., did you see any output from the echo?
Does the following semicolon version work?
If not; what is the output from the command:
I will like to write a script that delete all files that are older than 7 days in a directory and it's subdirectories. Can any one help me out witht the magic command or script?
Thanks in advance,
Odogboly98:confused: (3 Replies)
i have to delete files which are older than 15 days or more except the ones in the directory Current and also *.sh files
i have found the command for files 15 days or more older
find . -type f -mtime +15 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
but how to implement the logic to avoid directory Current and also... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to delete log files with extension .log which are older than 30
days. How to delete those files?
Operating system -- Sun solaris 10
Your input is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Williams (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using below code to delete files older than 2 days. In case if there are no files, I should log an error saying no files to delete.
Please let me know, How I can achive this.
find /path/*.xml -mtime +2
Thanks and Regards
Nagaraja. (3 Replies)
Hi All
I want to remove the files with name like data*.csv from the directory older than 10 days.
If there is no files exists to remove older than 10 days, It should not do anything.
Thanks
Jo (9 Replies)
As one of our requirement was to connect to remote Linux server through SFTP connection and delete some files which are older than 7 days.
I used the below piece of code for that,
SFTP_CONNECTION=`sftp user_id@host ...
cd DESIRED_DIR;
find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm -rf {} \;
bye... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to run a command that finds all files over x amount of days, issue is one of the directories has spaces within it.
find /files/target directory/*/* -type f -mtime +60 When running the above the usual error message is thrown back
+ find '/files/target\' 'directory/*/*' -type... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Ads89
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
anacrontab
ANACRONTAB(5) Anacron Users' Manual ANACRONTAB(5)NAME
/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8). Its lines can be of three kinds: job-description lines, environment
assignments, or empty lines.
Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
period delay job-identifier command
@period_name delay job-identify command
The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes. The job-identifier can contain any non-blank character, except slashes. It is used
to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the job's timestamp file. The command can be any shell command. The fields
can be separated by blank spaces or tabs. The period_name can only be set to monthly at the present time. This will ensure jobs are only
run once a month, no matter the number of days in this month, or the previous month.
Environment assignment lines are of the form:
VAR = VALUE
Spaces around VAR are removed. No spaces around VALUE are allowed (unless you want them to be part of the value). The assignment takes
effect from the next line to the end of the file, or to the next assignment of the same variable.
Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary
comment.
You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a ''.
SEE ALSO anacron(8)
The Anacron README file.
AUTHOR
Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
Pascal Hakim 2004-07-11 ANACRONTAB(5)