I have seen this type of problem with unix. You will observe that running find $DMPDIR -name "*" -mtime 0 -exec rm {} \; (without the +) will give different results and is what you actually want ; In my env, i have put both;
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How can I set my script to only keep one copy of a dump file? On Linux, I have the following line in the script (which is run nightly by cron). Yet I always seem to end up with 2 days worth of dmp files which are using up too much space. I only want for there to be one copy that stays on the server.find $DMPDIR -name "*" -mtime +0 -exec rm {} \; Rest of script that follows that line: DT=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` gzip < $EXPPIPE > $DMPDIR/${ORACLE_SID}_full.dmp.${DT}.gz &$ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp system/$exppass full=y file=$EXPPIPE log=$DMPDIR/${ORACLE_SID}_full_1db_exp_${DT}.log consistent=y compress=y#Check log for errors below cd $DMPDIR grep -c "EXP-" ${ORACLE_SID}_full_1db_exp_${DT}.log > /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] thenecho "failed export" | mail -s "export of $ORACLE_SID FAILED CHECK LOG FOR DETAILS" `cat $MAIL/dba`exit 1 fi exit _________________________________________________________________Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_hotmailtextlink2-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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