Running the 'exec' feature of 'find in AWK 1

[jping45]

I am having issues with running the exec part of the find command in my AWK script.. Any Ideas?


while ((getline < filename) > 0) {
test[a]=$2
system(&quot;find &quot;test[a]&quot; -type f -ctime +3 -exec rm -f {} ';' &quot
print test[a]
}

 

[CaKiwi]

This worked for me.

nawk 'system (&quot;find &quot; $2 &quot; -type f -exec rm -f {} \\;&quot' filename

I left out the -ctime +3 because I didn't have a file more than 3 days old that I wanted to remove. I used nawk because awk on my system does not have the system command.

Hope this helps.

CaKiwi

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