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Old 09-27-2012
find command error
Hi,

We have a shell script which looks into a directroy for any folder older than 30 days and removes them. The command being used is

Code:
find $ARCHIVE_DIR -type d -mtime +$PURGE_HIST_DAYS -exec rm -rf {} \;

It removes some folders but then throw below errors for others:
Code:
find: /invoice/archive/20120826/50161101: No such file or directory
find: /invoice/archive/20120826/50162736: No such file or directory
find: /invoice/archive/20120826/50164716: No such file or directory
find: /invoice/archive/20120826/50165042: No such file or directory

Why it is able to find and remove some folders but then falter on other folders? Can someone please point out what might be issue with this command?

Regards
Last edited by radoulov; 09-27-2012 at 06:53 AM..
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Old 09-27-2012
You are missing the -depth option.
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Old 09-27-2012
The problem is that find visits parent directories first, deleting them and all their contents, before attempting to visit the by then deleted files. Since find has no knowledge of the sideeffects of commands run with -exec, it is unaware that files and directories it intended to visit are now gone.

Either visit the children first with jlliagre's -depth predicate suggestion, or don't descend into deleted hierarchies by adding -prune between -mtime and -exec.

The -prune approach will be more efficient for this task.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 09-27-2012 at 10:06 AM..
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