OT: find command on rhel4 not working with mtime

  • From: Steve Perry <sperry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 22:14:35 -0500

Didn't know if anyone else has run across this, but I spent 1.5 hours trying to get a tried and true find command to work on RHEL4 (32-bit) without success.

I wanted to delete the audit files in $ORACLE_BASE/admin/<SID>/ adump that were older than 60 days. It shouldn't be rocket science or so I thought.

the command was

find $ORACLE_BASE/admin/<SID>/adump -name "ora*.aud" -mtime +60

It was supposed to have " -exec rm {} \;", but I never got that far because it wouldn't return any files.

i could use -60 and it would return files less than 60 days, but "+" failed to return anything. I tried ctime as well, but nothing.
man and google didn't return anything.


Anybody run across this before?
I thought I'd ask before writing a perl script. Does anyone have any one-line perl scripts before I write a longer one?


Thanks,
steve
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