On 22 May 2014, at 9:10, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I was wondering what is the best (as in most efficient method) for doing an
automated, scheduled recursive search and DEL exercise. The scheduled part is
just a cron job, no problem. But what's the most efficient method
Hi Kyle,
You might find it worth looking at the following invocation of find:
find top_dir -name name_to_del -exec rm -rf {} \+ -prune
the '+' will support expansion of arguments, thus it works exactly like
xargs in building up a command line that is passed to rm. You may also need
to specify
On 22 May 2014 19:16, Darragh Bailey daragh.bai...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kyle,
You might find it worth looking at the following invocation of find:
find top_dir -name name_to_del -exec rm -rf {} \+ -prune
the '+' will support expansion of arguments, thus it works exactly like
xargs in
Thanks to all for the responses.
Interestingly, everyone has come back with find (followed by..) as
the best option. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of the fact my 3
examples all used 'find'.
I have always thought (believed) 'find' was a less efficient process
than 'locate' and kind
Locate only indexes path names, not other attributes (like type, size, time
etc)
On 23 May 2014 06:11, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote:
Thanks to all for the responses.
Interestingly, everyone has come back with find (followed by..) as
the best option. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of
Hi folks,
I was wondering what is the best (as in most efficient method) for doing
an automated, scheduled recursive search and DEL exercise. The scheduled
part is just a cron job, no problem. But what's the most efficient
method to loop a given structure and remove all (non-empty)
On 5/22/14, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote:
I was wondering what is the best (as in most efficient method) for doing
an automated, scheduled recursive search and DEL exercise. The scheduled
part is just a cron job, no problem. But what's the most efficient
method to loop a given structure and
(Sorry I'm writing from the phone and can't test exact solution)
What's the context of this question? Do you really want to keep all empty
directories?
-delete will fail on non-empty directories. Use -print0 -prune | xargs
-0 rm -rf to stop find from scanning the doomed directory.
On 22 May 2014
Sorry, poorly worded.
I want to to loop a given structure and remove . /[specific, named]
/. (non-empty) directories below the top dir
Kyle
On 22-05-2014 14:12, Amos Shapira wrote:
What's the context of this
