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Old 05-31-2007
Error While Purging Files
find /filearchive/ -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm weblogs*.log {} \;

This worked only if this comand is executed int he unix comand prompt, but when i put this in the shell script it is not recognizing the file.It says weblogs: No such file or directory

Am i doing anything wrong here ?
# 2  
Old 05-31-2007
svish,
Your "find" statement is not correct.
See a proper version:
Code:
find /filearchive/ -type f -name 'weblogs*.log' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

# 3  
Old 05-31-2007
Shell,

Actually this option removes the fiels first and then doing a FInd over that.What is required is have to find the list of such files and then remove them.
Can i pipe the find results to rm ?
# 4  
Old 05-31-2007
have you tried the command yet? try it first before posting
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Old 05-31-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by svishh123
Can i pipe the find results to rm ?
find directory -print | xargs -n 20 rm
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