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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strange behavior of find and rm command Post 302943771 by mohtashims on Tuesday 12th of May 2015 03:11:12 PM
Old 05-12-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
First off, add echo before rm. Never ever ever run a batch deletion script you haven't tested.
This is suppose to run as a crontab.

I had use this command with rm -i option and it all looked good in the first run.

Could be my crontab tab is running in the background and its is deleting the files and when i run it manually it does not find the file .. .thats my wild guess. But how can i confirm ?

ps -ef | grep purge.sh
does not yield any results where purge.sh has that find and remove command i post in the OP; to show that the BG process is running or maybe there is a problem with the ps command Smilie

Not sure what has happened now ?
 

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SHAR(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   SHAR(1)

NAME
shar -- create a shell archive of files SYNOPSIS
shar file ... DESCRIPTION
The shar command writes a sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line op- erands. Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly). The shar command is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1). EXAMPLES
To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick: cd ls shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick To recreate the program directory: mkdir ls cd ls ... <delete header lines and examine mailed archive> ... sh archive SEE ALSO
compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1) HISTORY
The shar command appeared in 4.4BSD. BUGS
The shar command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters. The shar command cannot handle files without a newline (' ') as the last character. It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files. It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them through sh(1). Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command: egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file BSD
June 6, 1993 BSD
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