RE: RE: (jcwren) RE: Re: Deleting files over 2 weeks old?

I would have used:

find /somewhere/or/something -atime +7 -exec rm -v {} \;
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Then there arn't any chars that can freak it out. If not a -exec I simply wouldn't use find for it. update: ahh... an excelent point merlyn. Perl rules!

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RE: RE: RE: (jcwren) RE: Re: Deleting files over 2 weeks old? by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 03, 2000 at 04:50 UTC
And that causes a separate process invocation on each file, so as a denial of service attack, I can create hundreds of thousands of empty files in `/tmp`, and you end up firing a separate `rm` for each. The Perl solution is still the best. Fewest processes, and no problem with special characters in the filename. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]