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Old 03-19-2014
Find and touch in Shell
Hello All

Below is code snippet i am using
Code:
find . -name "*.txt" -mtime +5 -exec -touch "*.txt" {} +

The purpose is to make the files with name *.txt to be of size 0 kb if it is older than 5 days.With above code i am unable to do so.I know alternative is to use if/else loop but i would like to do this way only.
Please assist.
# 2  
Old 03-19-2014
Code:
find . -name "*.txt" -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \; -exec touch {} \;

# 3  
Old 03-19-2014
the above is not working
Error message as i found :
Quote:
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute :: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
# 4  
Old 03-19-2014
Untested:
Code:
for f in $(find . -name "*.txt" -mtime +5 -print); do > $f; done

Probably won't work if there are embeded spaces or other characters in the filenames.
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