On 7/12/06, Marius Raicu <mariu200@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm on RHEL3 and I use something like this, which works
/usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print -exec /bin/rm {} \;
You know of course, that '-exec CMD {} \:' is evil.
For simple commands that accept a single argument, xargs is superior.
eg. /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print | xargs rm
-exec forks and executes a shell for each file, xargs does not.
Try comparing the execution times of both methods.
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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
