On Sunday 17 July 2011 15:06:32 walt did opine thusly: > On 07/17/2011 02:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ? > > > > Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal > > with exactly this circumstance. > > > >> On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgr...@gmail.com > >> <mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain > >> folder > > Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then delete it > from your cache. The *real* Alan McKinnon does not top post.
He does when his ADSL modem craps out and he's forced to use the GMail app thingamajigy on his Android phone :-) Note to self: Put K-9 Mail back on phone for just in case moments like this. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
