Hi Make the 4 into a +4 and see if that helps.
Bye Wayne Holdcroft IT Systems Administrator International Reservoir Technologies, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brenden Walker Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 2:41 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Find -mtime doesn't seem to work properly. I'm using RH7.3 (with all the latest). I have a directory with several temporary subdirectories that I'd like to clean up. find /home/worktmp -type d -mtime 4 | xargs rm -rf (whole bunches of tmp1, tmp2, tmp3 directories there). I only want to delete the directories if the last modified time is 4 days old in this example. Well, this doesn't work. When I was testing last night there were directories with modify times from August this year... I cleaned it up using tmpwatch, but this is going to kill files in the directories regardless of the directory last modified time, I only want to delete all files and the directory when all files are older than x days. Anybody have suggestions? From what I can tell the -mtime should work, but it simply does not (or I'm using it totally wrong ;-) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
