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Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Especially for things like temporary directory cleanup, it'd be handy if
"find" had an option to seek files that are currently open. I can run the
results of "find" through "fuser" but that's a bit hairy. Something like
this would be nice:
find /var/tmp/spool -type f -not -open -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1000 rm -f
Thanks,
Tyler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages findutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
findutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages findutils suggests:
ii mlocate 0.21.1-2 quickly find files on the filesyst
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On 2009-11-30 Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.4.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Especially for things like temporary directory cleanup, it'd be handy if
> "find" had an option to seek files that are currently open. I can run the
> results of "find" through "fuser" but that's a bit hairy. Something like
> this would be nice:
> find /var/tmp/spool -type f -not -open -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1000 rm -f
[...]
Hello,
I do not think this (show only non-open files) can be done properly at
all. Whether a file is open or not can and will change quickly, like in
the time between find walking the tree and printing the output or
executing the command. OTOH if one is interested in (long-term) open
files, there is adedicated command for that, lsof.
cu Andreas
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