I'll try it again, I'm pretty sure using +4 returned everything (including directories modified today), but perhaps I was looking at the access time when I did that test.
Have to wait until I get home to try it out... Thanks for the suggestions, any others would be welcome too! > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:57 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Find -mtime doesn't seem to work properly. > > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
