Using "find" in a script..

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 16:51:

> The command that should do its is..
> 
> find /backups/fcws/ -mtime +15 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec rm -rf {};

> find: missing argument to `-exec'
> 
> Anyone got any ideas? to avoid this?

Others already gave the answer (escaping the ;).

Besides that you better avoid other circumstances (failures like "too
much arguments") by using xargs instead of -exec. So the line from above
would look like

find /backups/fcws/ -mtime +15 -maxdepth 1 \
-type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

> Otherwise I am going to have to create an "if" routine to test first if 
> there are any to delete and if there are then run the command otherwise 
> skip it..
> 
> Later..

Alexander


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