Re: Help with the find command

From: Mohamed Kamal (mohamed.kamal_at_SPDC.COM.EG)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date:         Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:33:51 +0200
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Dear Stephen,

      you have to use the negation with the expression ( -type d ). So the command will be like that
    find /stephen ! -type d -prune -o -mtime +10 -exec rm -ef {}\;

    Best Regards
    Mohammed Kamal
    Systems Engineer

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
    Sent: Mon, November 17, 2003 10:38 PM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Help with the find command

    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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