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Operating Systems Linux Finding files older than x days within directory with spaces Post 303016134 by Ads89 on Friday 20th of April 2018 09:34:47 AM
Old 04-20-2018
Finding files older than x days within directory with spaces
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.

Code:
find /files/target directory/*/* -type f -mtime +60

When running the above the usual error message is thrown back

Code:
+ find '/files/target\' 'directory/*/*' -type f -mtime +60
find: â/files/target\\â: No such file or directory
find: âdirectory/*/*â: No such file or directory

I have tried backspacing out the space

Code:
/target\ directory/

and also putting into quotes

Code:
/"target directory"/

But still find issues.

Any help is much appreciated.
 

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NAME

     calendarserver_purge_events -- Darwin Calendar Server event clean-up utility

SYNOPSIS

     calendarserver_purge_events [--config file] [--days number] [--dry-run] [--verbose] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

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