Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suselist@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:11, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 02:30, Agi Subagio wrote:
> > I have a script that create a backup file in regular schedule (run everyday
> > at 2 AM).
> > But after several weeks, my harddisk is getting full.
> > I want to delete older backup file that not modified/create after 30 days
> > ago.
> > 
> > I have used command;
> > $ find ./test -mtime +30 -exec 'rm -f *'
> 
> Try this:
> 
> $ find ./test -mtime +30 -exec rm -f \*

DUUU.

Forgot the {}.

$ find ./test -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \*

> 
> > But it seems, the rm command is not work.
> > 
> > How to do that?
> > 
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> Ken Schneider
> unix user since 1989
> linux user since 1994
> SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
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Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)