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Top Forums Programming Bash script - find command with delete and exec Post 302995494 by RudiC on Thursday 6th of April 2017 10:50:57 AM
Old 04-06-2017
I'm pretty sure some structuring of your text with e.g. punctuation would certainly enhance readability and understandability. And, posting WHAT "doesn't" could point helpers in the right direction. What be the difference when running it with mindepth 2 as compared to mindepth 1?
Would it help to put the {} in front of the file name to be touched?

Code:
find  -mindepth 2 -type d -exec echo touch WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt {} \;
touch WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt ./test/test1
touch WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt ./test/test1/test3
touch WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt ./test/test2

find  -mindepth 1 -type d -exec echo touch {}/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt \;
touch ./test/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt
touch ./test/test1/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt
touch ./test/test1/test3/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt
touch ./test/test2/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt

You might want to make sure everybody knows when the 14 days will be over ...
 

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touch

touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME

       touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...

DESCRIPTION

       touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist.

OPTIONS

       -a    Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified.

       -c    Do not create file if it does not exist.

       -f    Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file.

       -m    Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.

       >0    An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified.

ATTRIBUTES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

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