Do not suffix the last directory with (/) and you may get a better result. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lafond, Eileen Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 17:32 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: unix question Thanks. I am testing in my own test region and I was going to attempt to delete the files in a directory called tutorial. When I added the /tutorial/ to the mydir, it said not such file or directory. It definitely does exist. I did a cd tutorial and it appeared in the path so it indeed exists. I tried another directory path of '/home/faserv/lafonde/Views/' and it said the same thing with the views directory. Does anyone have a clue as to why I cannot set it up with the directories that I want to do the test deletes in? I have the case set correctly so that is not the issue. Thanks for any help, Eileen -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Øyvind Lode Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:40 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: unix question The below command should delete all files older than 30 days: find mydir '/home/faserv/lafonde' -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f '{}' \; On 05.10.2010 19:32, Lafond, Eileen wrote: > I guess that the type of Unix that we have is as follows: > > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 > > I consider myself a novice, but I write crontabs, cron jobs, sql and bat > files. My problem is with the actual unix itself as with all the slashes, > brackets, etc. > > I am starting off with a find command to see if I can find the correct files. > Then I want to do the rm command. I have attempted the man pages in the > past to no avail. I find them very confusing. I do better with actual > samples. > > Right now I have a question on the find command that I put together somehow > and it works if I don't have the 'type f' filled in. I thought that that > meant the type of file. I am looking for all the *.lst files, but I get > error messages on this. Otherwise this seems to work to find the files for > me. > > find mydir '/home/faserv/lafonde' -type f 'lst' -mtime +30 -exec ls -ld {} \; > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Eileen La fond > Work phone: (206) 386-0011 > email: eileen.lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:08 AM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: unix question > > Be careful with this kind of stuff because your unix variant may make > you do things slightly differently. Waht kind of unix is it? Is it > Aix, hpux, solaris, ...? You are sure it is Unix and not Linux? > Sometimes, people say unix when they mean linux. The are not the same > thing. They share similarities though and hence the confusion. I > used to be guilty of this myself. Jim Bauer's instructions look right > to me but I'd double check your system before you implement them. > > Alex M > > On 10/5/10, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 > <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> No, but I can tell you to do the command info find<enter> or man find >> <enter> and start taking notes. You may get a few good ideas. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lafond, >> Eileen >> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 18:36 >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: unix question >> >> Hi, >> >> I am a unix novice and I need to write some unix to delete all the files >> in a directory that are older than 30 days. Can someone help me compose >> this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eileen La Fond >> Phone: (206) 386-0011 >> email: eileen.lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind V'lwfڝ!jxʋmx,jm 祊l?+-肶)nX