@Ravinder, only GNU find defaults to . as the start directory! Unix find gives error if no start directory is given - here unfortunately suppressed with 2>/dev/null
The following lists files and directories with mtime less than 7 days:
Code:
find /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class -mtime -7 -ls
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Hi,
Having issues with the . parameter in the find command.
Issuing "find . -name \*.pl" gives me
find: cannot open .: No such device
I got it working by substituting . with *, so "find * -name \*.pl" gives the correct listing.
bin/test.pl
"which find" lists /bin/find.
Anybody... (7 Replies)
I have a script with a find command using xargs to copy the files found to another directory. The find command is finding the appropriate file, but it's not copying. I've checked permissions, and those are all O.K., so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
find command not working for me in a perticular directory.The same command is working fine in any other directory.
Following is the command i issued:
find . -type f -print
my question is , is it possbile to disable a command only for a perticular directory ??...of course... (4 Replies)
put prtconf command,after show this error message:
bash-3.00# prtconf
/usr/sbin/prtconf: msize=msize + 12544^J12544: syntax error
pleae help me...........waiting for replay
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mohan.s
Aix sysadmin
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Hi,
I am trying to list all the files created / modified today in a directory.
With reference to this thread,
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/20324-capture-all-today-files.html
I have used the below command to list all the files modified today.
find . -daystart -type f... (8 Replies)
Hi ,
In /home/etc/files path ran the following command
find . -name 'ABC*' | wc -l
The output of the above command is 25 as expected
In path /home path ran the following command
find . -name '/home/etc/files/ABC*' | wc -l
The output of the abvoe command is 0 .
Why the above... (3 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I have a problem about a little script,
when i run the following two lines one by one on CLI then they work well:
/usr/bin/mkdir `perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime "%Y-%m-%d",localtime(time() - 30*24*60*60);'`
find . -type f -name "fuseesb.log.*" -mtime 30... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to select 30 days older files under current directory ,but not from subdirectory using below command.
find <Dir> -type f -mtime + 30
This command selecting all the files from current directory and also from sub directory .
I read some documention through internet ,... (1 Reply)
Hi
1st problem
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i have this sed command in my unix script which replaces new line and carriage return in a line with the string "
"
the script works fine in Linux 3.0.101-0.5, but not in AIX 1 7 , the "s/\r/\
/g" replacement, replaces
all the character "r" in the file.... (3 Replies)
Can you please figure out what is the issue here
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -size 0 -print
find: bad option -maxdepth
please find the OS details
$ uname -a
HP-UX g5u1216 B.11.31 U ia64 2614088426 unlimited-user license
Use code tags, thanks. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: TomG
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tmpwatch
TMPWATCH(8) System Administrator's Manual TMPWATCH(8)NAME
tmpwatch - removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time
SYNOPSIS
tmpwatch [-u|-m|-c] [-MUadfqstvx] [--verbose] [--force] [--all]
[--nodirs] [--nosymlinks] [--test] [--fuser] [--quiet]
[--atime|--mtime|--ctime] [--dirmtime] [--exclude path]
[--exclude-user user] time dirs
DESCRIPTION
tmpwatch recursively removes files which haven't been accessed for a given time. Normally, it's used to clean up directories which are
used for temporary holding space such as /tmp.
When changing directories, tmpwatch is very sensitive to possible race conditions and will exit with an error if one is detected. It does
not follow symbolic links in the directories it's cleaning (even if a symbolic link is given as its argument), will not switch filesystems,
skips lost+found directories owned by the root user, and only removes empty directories, regular files, and symbolic links.
By default, tmpwatch dates files by their atime (access time), not their mtime (modification time). If files aren't being removed when ls
-l implies they should be, use ls -u to examine their atime to see if that explains the problem.
If the --atime, --ctime or --mtime options are used in combination, the decision about deleting a file will be based on the maximum of
these times. The --dirmtime option implies ignoring atime of directories, even if the --atime option is used.
The time parameter defines the threshold for removing files. If the file has not been accessed for time, the file is removed. The time
argument is a number with an optional single-character suffix specifying the units: h for hours, d for days. If no suffix is specified,
time is in hours.
Following this, one or more directories may be given for tmpwatch to clean up.
OPTIONS -u, --atime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's atime (access time). This is the default.
Note that the periodic updatedb file system scans keep the atime of directories recent.
-m, --mtime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's mtime (modification time) instead of the atime.
-c, --ctime
Make the decision about deleting a file based on the file's ctime (inode change time) instead of the atime; for directories, make
the decision based on the mtime.
-M, --dirmtime
Make the decision about deleting a directory based on the directory's mtime (modification time) instead of the atime; completely
ignore atime for directories.
-a, --all
Remove all file types, not just regular files, symbolic links and directories.
-d, --nodirs
Do not attempt to remove directories, even if they are empty.
-f, --force
Remove files even if root doesn't have write access (akin to rm -f).
-l, --nosymlinks
Do not attempt to remove symbolic links.
-q, --quiet
Report only fatal errors.
-s, --fuser
Attempt to use the "fuser" command to see if a file is already open before removing it. Not enabled by default. Does help in some
circumstances, but not all. Dependent on fuser being installed in /sbin. Not supported on HP-UX or Solaris.
-t, --test
Don't remove files, but go through the motions of removing them. This implies -v.
-U, --exclude-user=user
Don't remove files owned by user, which can be an user name or numeric user ID.
-v, --verbose
Print a verbose display. Two levels of verboseness are available -- use this option twice to get the most verbose output.
-x, --exclude=path
Skip path; if path is a directory, all files contained in it are skipped too. If path does not exist, it must be an absolute path
that contains no symbolic links.
SEE ALSO cron(1), ls(1), rm(1), fuser(1)WARNINGS
GNU-style long options are not supported on HP-UX.
AUTHORS
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution Fri Dec 14 2007 TMPWATCH(8)