Re: OT: find command on rhel4 not working with mtime

Errrrr... of course switch the order of the -name and -mtime args, not the
-exec .... figured that was obvious

Stefan

On 7/11/06, Mark Brinsmead <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Oh!  Bad advice!

Sure, delete the files *first*, *then* check to see whether the date
criteria is met.
It will "work", but it won't do what you wanted...

In general, you need to prefix the "*" in your find command with a "\",
however,
your use of double-quotes *should* achieve the same end.  All the same,
why don't
you try?




On 7/10/06, Stefan Knecht < knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've been having some odd issues with find where the order of the
> filters mattered.
>
> try to put -mtime before -name and see if that helps
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
> On 7/8/06, Steve Perry <sperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > --
> > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
> >
> >
> >
>


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