need help removing files

[buzzcasper]

Here's the code I'm currently using:

"find /tmp -name "pri*_dumptrace*" -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
-print"

I want to know if there's a way I can stop this command from going into the subdirectories of the /tmp directory that I don't have access to get into (the command tries to get in the subdirectories spitting errors out to me); I could send the error messages to /dev/null but I want to see if there's a better solution.

Brett

 

[aixmurderer]

From the man pages:

-prune Always evaluates to the value True. Stops the descent of the current pathname if it is a directory. If the -depth flag is specified, the -prune flag is
ignored.

So this should work:

"find /tmp -name "pri*_dumptrace*" -prune -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;




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[buzzcasper]

The command "find /tmp -name "pri*_dumptrace*" -prune -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;" didn't seem to work; the search still descended into the subdirectories giving me permission errors for the subdirectories I shouldn't be able to get into.

 

[sushveer]

Hi buzz
The find command does recursive search in directory tree.
Your wish will not be fullfilled with this command..
Let us think for someother utility...

sushveer
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[dsn1]

If you just want to check and delete files other than directories within /tmp, this may do what you want.

ls -l /tmp |awk '! /^d/ {print $NF}'|xargs -l -i find /tmp/{} -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;


Dave

 

[dc6]

The prune needs to be evaluated first. The following skips the subdirectories before processing the files:

find /tmp \( -type d ! -name 'tmp' -prune \) -o \( -name "pri*_dumptrace*" -mtime +7 -ls \) -exec rm {} \;

Cheers,
DC

 

[McleanWJM]

Hm why not just find without added maches? Isnt the "-o" for additional matches, I think he wanted just this
find /tmp -type f -name "pre*_dumptrace*" -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;