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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find with rm command gives strange results Post 303000225 by jtamminen on Thursday 6th of July 2017 02:36:05 PM
Old 07-06-2017
Find with rm command gives strange results

I want to remove any files that are older than 2 days from a directory. It deletes those files. Then it comes back with a message it is a directory. What am I doing wrong here?

Code:
+ find /mydir -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
rm: /mydir is a directory


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-06-2017 at 03:48 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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