Archiving using find command with -atime

[tommcc]

hi all

this is not a syntax question...

can anyone explain why it is when I use the following find command it does not remove the archive files older than 14 days ? I know it is because the files have been accessed < 14 days ago, but I don't understand how the access time is changing on the files....

find /usr/lpp/log/archive -name &quot;*.log*&quot; -atime +14 -exec \rm {} \;

this command is run daily as a cronjob

There are files older than 14 days (ls -l) in this directory, but when I run ls -ul I find that the last accessed time = date the cron job ran

I know the find command will change the access time of directories supplied as pathnames, but why does this affect the contents of the directory also ?

cheers

 

[nogs]

Hi tommcc
Have you tried cd'ing into the dir first;
cd /usr/lpp/log/archive
find . &quot;*.log*&quot; -atime +14 -exec rm {} \;
HTH
Nogs

 

[tommcc]

Thanks Nogs