Quick question about the command find.
Markus Schönhaber
ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Fri Jun 4 14:04:20 UTC 2010
04.06.2010 15:21, Maxime Alarie:
> I want to erase files and directories that are older than 15 days..
> the command I use is : find $MyPath -type d -exec rm {} \;
>
> Obviously rm wont erase a non empty directory..
Without -r rm won't erase any directory, empty or not. rmdir will delete
directories iff they are empty.
> I tried using rm -r but I got errors..
And these errors were exactly...?
> My question is, How can I recursively delete directories using find
> -exec rm without having to use 2 commands: find . -type f -mtime +15
> -exec rm THEN find . -type d -exec rmdir
By default, find ANDs multiple tests. Therfore,
find $MyPath -type d -mtime +15
should print all directories below $MyPath which were not modified for
more than 15 days.
>From your description it's not entirely clear to me, whether you really
want to recursively delete those directories regardless whether or not
they contain files or directories with a more recent mtime. If not, rm
-r is obviously not what you want to use.
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Regards
mks
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