UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI All,

I have recuirement to purge the files in a directory . In that directory i an having many sub-directory .

When i use find command like
find ~/work/test/insert -name "*.*" -mtime +12

it is listing the file not accesed before 12 , It also takes the subdirectories inside the directory ~/work/test/insert .

I want to conside only this directory , not the subdirectories in find . PLease let me know how i can be done.



offcourse i searched the form but this is not working for me

find ~/work/test/insert \(! -name ."*.*") -type f -mtime +1 -print

Thanks,
Arun.

i know this command is wrong


find ~/work/test/insert \(! -name ."*.*") -type f -mtime +1 -print

i have also done as

find ~/work/test/insert \(! -name ."*.*"\) -type f -mtime +1 -print

the same is also not working .... is there is a way to do this to find only in a directory omitting its sub directory???

The solution depends on the version of find you're using:

Code:

find .  -name . -prune -type f -mtime +12

Code:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +12

find . ! -name . -prune -mtime +1

This commands work for me .. But i need to specify hthe directory .. If i do like this

find /working/can/transfer ! -name . -prune -mtime +1

or
find /working/can/transfer ! -name . -prune "*.*" -mtime +1

is not working . please let mew know what needs to change ..

Thanks,
Arun

Code:

find /working/can/transfer/. ! -name . -prune -type f -mtime +1

Don't get confused by the path (/./), it's valid

That was really great !... Thanks...

Just a question my command is

find /working/can/transfer/ -name "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec rm -f -r

is there is any way to work with this command like include -prune i tried with

find /working/can/transfer/ -name -prune "*.*" -mtime +1 -exec rm -f -r

it is not working can i know why it is ???..

Thanks,
Arun

Given the previous posts:

Code:

find /working/can/transfer/. ! -name . -prune -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} +

With zsh (even on your old Solaris ):

Code:

rm -- /working/can/transfer/*(m+1^/)