This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:19:21PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote:
>> >Can anyone tell me what is the correct form of
>> >
>> >find smtpd* -atime 7 -exec ` rm -f {} ` \;
>> >on a RH5.2 system?
>>
>> You can only specify one directory to look in, so smtpd* isn't going to
>> work.
>
>not true -- do as many as you like
Ok, woops!
>> find . -wholename './smtpd*' -atime 7 -exec rm -f {} \;
>>
>> or
>>
>> find . -wholename './smtpd*' -atime 7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
>>
>> I only just learnt -wholename so I may have gotten the syntax wrong. Buyer
>> beware! :-)
>
>I suspect older find's don't have -wholename.
"buyer beware".
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