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# 15  
Old 04-26-2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Strange. Please show us the exact output you get when your run the commands:
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} + -exec rm {} + \) > out1.1 2> out2.1
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} + -exec rm {} + \) > out1.2 2> out2.2
ls -l out[12].[12]
for i in 1 2
do      echo "** out2.$i"
        cat out2.$i
done

I am capturing the output to a log and following are the outputs :

Code:
Run 1: out1.1 :
Files older than 60 days :
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Nov 09 18:28 ./Test/one1.__0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__9
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__8
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__7
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__6
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__5
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__4
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__3
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__2
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__1
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__0

Code:
Run 2: out1.2
Files older than 60 days :
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Nov 09 18:28 ./Test/one1.__0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__9
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__8
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__7
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__6
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__5
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__4
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__3
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__2
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__1
-rwxrwxrwx    1 test_user test_user          0 Dec 08 17:29 ./Test/November 2014.__0

There are no errors i.e; out2.1, out 2.2 both are empty files.
# 16  
Old 04-26-2015
Looking more closely at the standard, when using -exec command +, the primary always returns success even if one or more executions of the given command fail. Furthermore, if there are two or more primaries like this, the order in which they are executed is unspecified. (So, the rm commands for a group of files could be executed before, after, or simultaneously with the ls commands for the same or different groups of files.) I don't understand why this would keep the rm commands from working, but it could cause files to be removed before they were listed by ls.

When the echo was in the -exec echo rm ..., did you see any output from the echo?

Does the following semicolon version work?
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec rm {} \; \)

If not; what is the output from the command:
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec echo rm {} \; \)

This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
karumudi7
# 17  
Old 04-27-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Looking more closely at the standard, when using -exec command +, the primary always returns success even if one or more executions of the given command fail. Furthermore, if there are two or more primaries like this, the order in which they are executed is unspecified. (So, the rm commands for a group of files could be executed before, after, or simultaneously with the ls commands for the same or different groups of files.) I don't understand why this would keep the rm commands from working, but it could cause files to be removed before they were listed by ls.

When the echo was in the -exec echo rm ..., did you see any output from the echo?

Does the following semicolon version work?
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec rm {} \; \)

If not; what is the output from the command:
Code:
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec echo rm {} \; \)

Code:
 
find . \( -name ABC -prune \) -o \( -name XYZ -prune \) -o \( -name "*.__*" -mtime +60 -exec ls -lrt {} \; -exec rm {} \; \)

This worked. Thank you Don!
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