On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Brett Parker wrote: > >Better still: > > find . -type f -mtime +60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm > > > >Just on the offchance that you've got some strange filenames. > > > > > > > Even better? > > find . -type -f -mtime +60 -delete
hmmm - depends on how find implements -delete I suspect, if it is just an unlink, then yeah - better :) If it calls an external program, though, and does it once for every file, then it's going to be more overhead than find and xargs ;) (without looking at the code to find, I have no idea what it does :) -- Brett Parker -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
