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# 15  
Old 10-11-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
try with this....


Code:
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180 | grep '/tmp/......$'

Still nothing returns. I am on AIX 6.1
# 16  
Old 10-11-2012
try with this...

Code:
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180 | awk  'length($0) == 11'

Here many ways of doing this are described in this thread but any of these are not solving your purpose...Smilie
# 17  
Old 10-11-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
try with this....
Code:
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180 | grep '/tmp/......$'

Since that find command is allowed to descend into subdirectories, there exists the possiblity that another directory named "tmp" could be visited. Because of this, your grep regular expression is underspecified. You must anchor it at the beginning as well.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Gate
If I just run
PHP Code:
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180 
, I am getting these outputs.
HTML Code:
....
/tmp/yZqcMa
/tmp/yZyiya
/tmp/y_Mdia
/tmp/y_Qcia
/tmp/y_Qcya
/tmp/y_ap7a
/tmp/y_mkia
/tmp/y_qfUa
/tmp/y_yc7a
/tmp/ypMe7a
/tmp/ypYk7a
/tmp/yxAi7a
....
Based on that output, I don't see how pamu's suggestion could not have returned something.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Gate
Still nothing returns.
Could there be whitespace after the filenames? If not, you must have made some mistake in typing the command. Perhaps a dot too many/few?

Here's yet another suggestion, a find approach that restricts itself to AIX 6.1 primaries:
Code:
find /tmp -type f -mtime +180 -name '??????' -print -o -type d -exec test {} \!= /tmp \; -prune

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 10-11-2012 at 02:48 PM.. Reason: removed complicating optimization
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