Hi Tim, > find /var/log/ -name '*.log*' -type f -mtime +7 -print ... > -rwxrwxr-x 1 mit mit 104 Apr 22 21:29 deletefile.sh
Does ‘sudo ./deletefile.sh’ — or similar, if it's not in the current directory — now work? > So now for a second question -name '*log*' I assume that this looks for > a file name with log in it regardless of where in the name it finds > logs Yes, find's ‘globbing’ has ‘*’ match zero or more characters. > so it will select "file.log" as well as "file.log.2.gz". Yes. > The reason I ask it that it is selecting some compressed log files like > file.log.2.gz but ignoring other which are like 5 weeks old. - Your script above has ‘*.log*’, not ‘*log*’. - Give an example path name of what it is ignoring. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2025-05-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
