QUESTION FOR AIXSPADMIN

[jalge2]

That worked great and I think you for the help. But my next question is, I have more than just the wavelog.*. There is also a batlog.log.*, userr.*, and hislog.*. Is there a way to put those all in the same line or do I have to write this out for each one?

 

[AIXSPadmin]

I would use a for loop:

for Variable in wavelog.* batlog.log.* userr.* hislog.*
do
find /path -name $Variable -mtime +7 | xargs rm
done

 

[dsn1]

You can do it in one invocation of find

find /dirname -name "wavelog.*" -o -name "batlog.log.*" -o -name "userr.*" -o -name "hislog.*" -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

-o adds the next element as an or

Dave

 

[dsn1]

Ooops. I forogt to put the parentheses in


find /dirname \( -name "wavelog.*" -o -name "batlog.log.*" -o -name "userr.*" -o -name "hislog.*" \) -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Dave

 

[AIXSPadmin]

This was my question

Of course that is possible, but why use the old '\;' which I hate, piping to xargs is much cleaner.