Numeric arguments for the find command can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n
You probably want to use "-mtime +4" as your test. Look for the TESTS section of the find manpage. Juan On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Brenden Walker wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:40:35 -0500 > From: Brenden Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[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
