concatenate the sign and the value
-mtime +5
hth
A 00:40 06/06/02 -0500, vous avez écrit :
>When I tried:
> find $root/$instance/psdata/backup/pserver????????.prefs -mtime + 5 -exec
>rm {} ';'
>It gave me the error:
>find: invalid argument `+' to `-mtime'
>
>Whats wrong with it?
>
>--------------
>Jesse Angell
>PalaceUnlimited.com
>#1 Palace Host
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cameron Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Bash scripting
>
>
>> On 23:15 05 Jun 2002, Jesse Angell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | Here is my script
>> | #!/bin/sh
>>
>> Note - this isn't bash - it's generic Bourne shell - works in bash, ksh,
>etc.
>> Always a worthy goal. It merely happens that /bin/sh is bash on most Linux
>> systems.
>>
>> | cp $root/$instance/psdata/pserver.prefs
>$root/$instance/psdata/backup/pserver
>> | `date +%y%m%d`.prefs
>> |
>> | This script is ran daily. The one thing that I need to do is set it so
>after
>> | those are 5 days old the script deletes them. ( the backups) as it would
>become
>> | hectic after a few months.
>> | How do I have it delete the files that are 5 days old?
>>
>> find $root/$instance/psdata/backup/pserver????????.prefs -mtime + 5 -exec
>rm {} ';'
>>
>> Someone may mention xargs, but there's no gain here.
>> --
>> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>>
>> You can't always get what you want. - The Rolling Stones
>>
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