Shell Programming and Scripting

find /logs/212/abinitio/prod/mfs/partitions/part0/mfs_12way_001/mfs_12way/sncrpt/main/ -name "*dat" -mtime +1 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
find /cddata/bi/logs/212/data/cdr/ -name "*dat" -mtime 10 -exec ls -ltr {} \;
find /logs/212/data/cem/ -name "*dat" -mtime 10 -exec ls -ltr {} \;

find /logs/212/abinitio/prod/mfs/partitions/part0/mfs_12way_001/mfs_12way/sncrpt/main/ -name "*dat" -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
find /cddata/bi/logs/212/data/cdr/ -name "*dat" -mtime 10 -exec rm -rf {} \;
find /logs/212/data/cem/ -name "*dat" -mtime 10 -exec rm -rf {} \;

-exec rm -rf {} \;

-ok rm -rf {} \;

-exec rm -ri {} +

ask() { # "Question to ask"
# Ask a question (y/n)
# Returns 0 for yes, 1 for no
    read -n1 -p "$1 (y/n): " ANSWER
    [ [yjso] = "$ANSWER" ] && return 0 || return 1
    # Returns YES (0) for yes, si, oui, ja (first letters)
}

BASE=/some/dir
cd $BASE

for FOUND in $(find . -name);do     ### might become ARG_MAX, but you said its only ~25
    [ -d $FOUND ] && \
       ask "Delete: $FOUND and all subdirectories?" && \
       rm -fr $FOUND
done