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# 8  
Old 10-04-2010
The command to delete won't work, I mean will it actually LIST anything based on your find......
# 9  
Old 10-11-2010
hi,

Finally it works perfectly when the following statement constructed into a shell script instead.

By locating it to part of crontab file, it will not work as it supposes to be. Don't quite sure why.


Quote:
/usr/bin/find /backup -name "*tar*" -mtime +2 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \; 1 > /dev/null 2>&1
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---------- Post updated at 01:13 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:06 PM ----------

Thread can be closed. Thx anyone for their comments.
Last edited by rauphelhunter; 10-11-2010 at 02:14 AM.. Reason: Duplicate reply
# 10  
Old 10-11-2010
If this problem exists when you run as a cron script but not when you run it manually, it is an issue with your environment. Source your .bashrc in the cron script and see if that changes the results.
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