I am using find command to search f

[nwo4life]

I am using find command to search for files older then 2 days in a directory and delete the files.
The directory structure is like this - /home/test and /home/test/nwo.
There are files that are older then 2 days in both /home/test and /home/test/nwo directory.
I want to delete the files out of /home/test & not delete files from /home/test/nwo directory.

Thanks in advance.

 

[sushveer]

Hi nw0life

You can use find command with following syntax:

#find /home/test -name 'file*' -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

Please Be careful while typing for this syntax

That's it!

sushveer
IBM certified specialist-p-series AIX5L System Administration
AIX/SOLARIS/WEBSPHERE-MQ/TIVOLI Administrator

 

[gringomike]

Hi nwo4life,

The following should do what you want ;

find /home/test -name nwo -prune -o -ctime +2 -exec rm {}

This excludes the "nwo" directory under /home/test.

GM

 

[nwo4life]

What if there is more then just the nwo directory, like a home/test/nwo1,home/test/nwo2,home/test/nwo3 etc.

 

[gringomike]

You should find your answer in here somewhere;

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~ngunton/worksheets/sl.pdf

By the sounds of it, the version of Solaris your running and the way your system is configured have to be taken into consideration.

GM