Help with the find command

From: Stephen Spalding (ssaixadm_at_YAHOO.COM)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date:         Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:37:33 -0800
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    All,

    I'm writing a script to clean up files under a certain
    directory that are over a certain amount of time old.
    I'm using the find command to do this. However, I do
    not want the find command to traverse any
    subdirectories underneath the directory that I've
    specified. I don't want to have to name each and every
    subdirectory under the directory that's being cleaned
    up.

    Here's an example of what I'm doing. The directory
    name is /stephen. This directory has a bunch of files
    under it and two subdirectories: /stephen/files and
    /stephen/tmp. I want the find command to completely
    ignore /stephen/files and /stephen/tmp and any files
    under them, but I want to clean up any files directly
    under /stephen that are over 10 days old. Here's the
    command that I've been working with:

    find /stephen -type d -prune -o -mtime +10 -exec rm
    -ef {}\;

    Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

    Thanks!

    -Stephen Spalding

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