10-12-2001
Thank you for your help!
I ended up with this :
find /path_to_apache_logs -name "access_log.*" -mtime 1 -exec rm {} \;
One thing I'm wondering about:
I tried 3 things regarding the filenames:
1. single quotes
-name 'access_log.*' -mtime 1 - exec {} \;
2. double quotes
-name "access_log.*" -mtime 1 - exec {} \;
3. filename included in path
path_to_apache_logs/access_log.* -mtime 1 - exec {} \;
All these 3 methods seem to work, but is there a difference in for example using single or double qoutes?
Once again thank you for your assistance!
JamesBond
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