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# 15  
Old 08-20-2008
That one definitely works for me, both on HP-UX and Linux. What operating system are you using?
# 16  
Old 08-21-2008
the command 'uname -a -v' returned:

AIX myserveraix4 3 5 00C7D5FF4C00
# 17  
Old 08-21-2008
Works for me on AIX too (although the only system I have access to is AIX 6.1 (yours is 5.3). Are you sure you copied the command correctly and replaced both instances of dir5 with the real directory name, in the second case without the path?
# 18  
Old 08-21-2008
e.g.

Code:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/testdir/subdir
$ touch 01010000 /tmp/testdir/oldfile /tmp/testdir/subdir/oldfile
$ touch /tmp/testdir/newfile /tmp/testdir/subdir/newfile
$ find /tmp/testdir | xargs ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x    3 username staff           256 Aug 21 04:54 /tmp/testdir
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Aug 21 04:54 /tmp/testdir/newfile
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/testdir/oldfile
drwxr-xr-x    2 username staff           256 Aug 21 04:54 /tmp/testdir/subdir
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Aug 21 04:54 /tmp/testdir/subdir/newfile
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/testdir/subdir/oldfile
$ find /tmp/testdir -type d -a ! -name testdir -prune -o -type f -mtime +2 -print | xargs ls -ld
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/testdir/oldfile
$

# 19  
Old 08-21-2008
The directory I am trying is named as _PROD_. Do you think the underscore would be the culprit?

I have tested this on another directory without underscore characters and it works fine. Is there a way get around this?
# 20  
Old 08-25-2008
I repeated the above test using _PROD_ as the directory name and it still seems to behave as expected:

Code:
$ ksh -x /tmp/t
+ mkdir -p /tmp/_PROD_/subdir
+ touch 01010000 /tmp/_PROD_/oldfile /tmp/_PROD_/subdir/oldfile
+ touch /tmp/_PROD_/newfile /tmp/_PROD_/subdir/newfile
+ xargs ls -ld
+ find /tmp/_PROD_
drwxr-xr-x    3 username staff           256 Aug 26 00:11 /tmp/_PROD_
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Aug 26 00:11 /tmp/_PROD_/newfile
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/_PROD_/oldfile
drwxr-xr-x    2 username staff           256 Aug 26 00:11 /tmp/_PROD_/subdir
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Aug 26 00:11 /tmp/_PROD_/subdir/newfile
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/_PROD_/subdir/oldfile
+ xargs ls -ld
+ find /tmp/_PROD_ -type d -a ! -name _PROD_ -prune -o -type f -mtime +2 -print
-rw-r--r--    1 username staff             0 Jan 01 2008  /tmp/_PROD_/oldfile
$

# 21  
Old 08-27-2008
This is very frustrating. The command works for another directory _REP_ but does not work for _PROD_

The following does not return any output:

find /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/_PROD_

But if I change directory to cd /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 and find _PROD_ it does return me _PROD_.

Again while in dir4 the following does not return any output:

find _PROD_ -type d -a ! -name _PROD_ -prune -o -type f -mtime +5 -print
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