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Originally Posted by
Scrutinizer
I was not suggesting that the script might have reinstalled anything, but enquiring about the possibility that somebody else of some other process could have been installing or reinstalling something in /usr/bin after the script had previously removed the directory (perhaps even as a response to it, for example some form of configuration management)
I'm not sure is any such provison exists.
Those files may have not been deleted because they were in use by some other process.Thats's the conclusion that I have reached.
The script went ahead and deleted every in
/usr as it selected that as the oldest file as you said earlier.Some files were not deleted because they were in use.
So some files were left behind and most files got deleted.