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) directories
below the top dir?
The 3 examples I've come up with are;
find <top_dir> -name <name_to_find_and_DEL> -exec rm -rf {} \; -
what's the '\' for and is it necessary?
rm -rf `find <top_dir> -type d -name <name_to_find_and_DEL>` - does
it actually require the ' ` ' or are ' ' ' good enough?
find <top_dir> -name '<name_to_find_and_DEL>' -type d -delete - or
won't this work for a non-empty dir?
Or is there a more efficient manner which I can slot into a cron job?
Much appreciate the input.
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Kyle
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