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_at_gmail.com> 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_at_gmail.com> 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_at_sprynet.com> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> -- Mark Brinsmead
> Staff DBA,
> The Pythian Group
> http://www.pythian.com/blogs
>

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