Shell Script to delete files

[Joe Nyland]

On 20 Apr 2013, at 10:31, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Akash Jain wrote:
>> My aim is to delete more than 5 days old files which are no longer
>> used by any process. As a starter I have written following script,
>> but it does not work, says line 10 command not found.
>> 
>> HOME=~/var
>> 
>> cd $HOME
>> 
>> for  f in  `find . -type f`;  do
> 
> It isn't clear where your script starts, so it is difficult to guess 
> which line the shell doesn't like. But I would suggest to carefully 
> check the line above.
> 
> Nils

Hi,

The following runs with no issues here:

HOME=~/var

cd $HOME

for f in `find . -type f`; do
  if [[ `lsof -n $f` ]]; then
       echo $f
  fi; 
done

Hope this helps.

Joe