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Hi All,

When i do ll , i saw the below list

ll
total 144512
drwxr-xr-x 2 weftp usr 8192 May 1 2007 weftp
drwxrwxrwx 3 wetp usr 24576 Dec 23 20:45 weftp
drwxrwxrwx 2 erer1 usr 8192 Nov 6 09:28 itm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 stj usr 1006258 Sep 19 15:33 W7041012_cpy
-rwxrwxrwx 1 stj usr 72928579 May 1 2007 greta.gz

but when i tried the below command

find /wrk/cn/trans/ -name "*" -mtime +20 -exec rm -f -r 2> /dev/null "{}" ";"

the file is not getting deleted . Can you please tell me why ?.. Whether .gz cannot be deleted. Even if .gz have restriction why W7041012_cpy is not getting deleted ..



but when i do a find only i see that


/wrk/cn/trans/W7041012_cpy
/wrk/cn/trans/greta.gz
/wrk/cn/trans/crcv/.ssh
find: cannot open /wrk/cn/trans/crcv/.ssh
/wrk/cn/trans/weftp/
...

if a find fails like the above will the rm will not perform ?? .. I am using HP UNIX

Thanks,
Arun.

sorry to post again ....

I am having the one more question .

I am using find with mtime and deleting a file . I am running the find with delete in a directory . This directory containd one more directory in it . My scheduled find with delete finds the filesin the sub directory and deletes the file . But it id not doing the the same in the present directory . It is not deleting rather it is listing the files in the current directory .

-rwxrwxrwx 1 scot cusr 1006258 Sep 19 15:33 s7041012
-rwxrwxrwx 1 scot cusr 72928579 May 1 2007 sp.gz

i cannot delete these file by find with delete . But the below files were deleted . But these files are in the subdirectory.

-rw-r--r-- 1 p13 datps 3462975 Dec 13 12:14 t52
-rw-r--r-- 1 p13 datps 3506325 Dec 20 13:34 t01
-rw-r----- 1 cftp cusr 49981106 Dec 12 09:41 p112

Can any one please let me know the reason ..

If that is permission problem . like that the file created by scot cannot be deleted . the even though rwxrwxrwx is set for s7041012 why it is not deleting . How can it be done ?..

Thanks,
Arun

Do not use:
2 > /dev/null
in a command and then complain that you don't know why it failed. The "2 > /dev/null" is asking the command to hide error messages. Try it again without the "2 > /dev/null" and see if you get any messages.

Please see the error i saw when i doing a find

find /wrk/cn/tranr/ -name "*" -mtime +100 -exec rm -f -r

find /work/cn/tranr/ -name "*" -mtime +100 -exec rm -f -r {} ;



Thanks,
Arun

sorry i didnt posted the error ..

find /wrk/cn/trans/ -name "*" -mtime +100 -exec rm -f -r
find: -exec not terminated with ';'

find /wrk/cn/trans/ -name "*" -mtime +100 -exec rm -f -r {};
find: -exec not terminated with ';'


How can i overcome the same

Thanks,
Arun

Return to the syntax you used in the first post:

"{}" ";"

Thanks perdebro..

It worked ..

(sys22nlfct:/work/can/transfer>) find /work/can/transfer/ -name "*" -mtime +100 -exec rm -f -r "{}" ";"
rm: /work/can/transfer/spcurruswst.gz not removed. Permission denied


but the file is having full permision .. I have raised a seperate thread for this permision issue.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 scottj canusr 1006258 Sep 19 15:33 s7041012_copy

Thanks again,
Arun.