If the rm command(s) printed look(s) like it(they) do(es) what you want, remove the echo from the find -exec primary to actually remove the selected files.
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Thank you. It worked but I missed my criteria - I need to exclude the "ABC" and "XYZ" directory contents in the above recursive command output. Any idea ?
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
I assume that the question was rhetorical and that you already know that it won't work. If I understand what you're trying to do, try this:
If the rm command(s) printed look(s) like it(they) do(es) what you want, remove the echo from the find -exec primary to actually remove the selected files.
Based on the above Inputs I framed like below to list and delete the files :
Note that with -exec ls -lrt {} \;, the -r and -t are meaningless. With -exec ls -lrt {} +, groups of files will be sorted in reverse time order; but there is no guarantee that all of the files you want to process will be processed by a single invocation of ls.
If the ls output and the echo output shows that it is selecting the files you want to remove, take out the echo to actually remove the selected files.
Note also that if you want to run slower and take more system resources, you can use -exec rm {} \; instead of -exec rm {} +, but you can't combine \; and \) into \;) as you did in your script.
Note that with -exec ls -lrt {} \;, the -r and -t are meaningless. With -exec ls -lrt {} +, groups of files will be sorted in reverse time order; but there is no guarantee that all of the files you want to process will be processed by a single invocation of ls.
If the ls output and the echo output shows that it is selecting the files you want to remove, take out the echo to actually remove the selected files.
Note also that if you want to run slower and take more system resources, you can use -exec rm {} \; instead of -exec rm {} +, but you can't combine \; and \) into \;) as you did in your script.
Some how the rm is not executing in the above command, it is listing all the files but not removing. I have removed echo command.
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