Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:51:23 PDT
> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>
> > Well, I finally got it!
> >
> > find . -type f -mtime +18 -exec /bin/echo {} \; | more
> >
> > is the correct syntax. Now I just replace "/bin/echo" with "/bin/rm"
> > and I ready to go.
>
> That's still horribly overcomplicated and inefficient. Use "find .
> -type f -mtime +18" to see what the results would be and "find . -type f
> -mtime +18 -delete" to delete them. It's much more efficient to let
> find do the deleting than worrying about creating a bunch of echo or rm
> child processes.
>
Geez, thanks Brian...I've been using find for 25 years and never realized it
had
a delete option .
I stay away from exec -- you can often do what you need with find -- or
format output with -printf to do special formatting...
I often used -exec with cp/mv -- but coreutils has an option (-t) so you
can put these after xargs...
marty
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