On 0, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tom! > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > > > [...] > > All I can say is... it works for me. How many files in the directory > > where you're having this fail? It works for me in /usr/lib. > > > > # ls /usr/lib -lt1 | wc -l > > 841 > > I suspect the problem is not $NUM_OF_FILES since that is set to only > 50. To me, the problem seems to be the sheer number of files returned by > ls: > > ls -lt1 $BACKUP_DIR/*.arc | wc -l > > 2708 > > That number will grow considerably since these .arc files are Oracle > archive files and 4-5 of these files are created *per minute*.
I see. > > [...] > > otherwise you will get a lot of files with names like '-rw-r-----' > > that rm can't delete for some mysterious reason. Maybe that was your > > problem? > > No, I don't get the permission settings since I used "ls -lt1" which is > different from "ls -lt". When it comes to "ls -lt", I absolutely agree > with you. Even though the ls's man page is not very specific on "-1", it > seems to strip the other info returned by "-l" away, which is what I want. > The awk you added of course also works, if I only used "ls -lt". I can safely say that I knew nothing about the -1 option to ls when I sent that message, except that I have observed this result: tkcook@brain:~/mbox$ ls -lt1 total 40 drwx--S--- 2 tkcook tkcook 32768 Sep 20 17:04 cur drwx--S--- 2 tkcook tkcook 4096 Sep 20 17:04 tmp drwx--S--- 2 tkcook tkcook 4096 Sep 20 17:03 new tkcook@brain:~/mbox$ Clearly it is NOT stripping off the attributes. The man page just says "one file per line", not anything about attributes. Do you get a different result on your system? What sort of system is it? I get this result on a woody box and an (oldish) sid box. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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