(atl: plain heresy) RE: RE: RE (tilly) 1: Find files older than x days and delete them

I know this is plain, flat heresy, especially here inside the monastry, but why use perl for this at all?

find /your/path -mtime numberofdays -exec rm -f {} \;
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Father, forgive me, for I have sinned ... ;-))

Andreas

Update:

Once again I am humbly admitting that merlyn and tilly made good points (see below). So now we have three chief reasons (weapons) for a perl solution:

efficiency,
portability and
an almost fanatical devotion to the pope (Larry) ;-))

After this confession, shall I be free? Hey, stick away from that comfy chair ...
(do you know that feeling when you should do your already late travel and time reports for your company but keep lurking around instead? Oh boy ...)

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RE: (atl: plain heresy) RE: RE: RE (tilly) 1: Find files older than x days and delete them by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 22, 2000 at 16:01 UTC
Because that fires off one process per file to be deleted. The Perl solution fires off one process overall. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
RE (tilly): (atl: plain heresy) RE: RE: RE (tilly) 1: Find files older than x days and delete them by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 22, 2000 at 16:20 UTC
Portability? :-)	[reply]
RE: (atl: plain heresy) RE: RE: RE (tilly) 1: Find files older than x days and delete them by OzzyOsbourne (Chaplain) on Aug 22, 2000 at 23:09 UTC
I use it b/c there are several file types that I'm looking for, and I need a log. Windows Find doesn't log, and I'm not sure that you can search out multiple file types. Plus, I'm lazy. I like one click.	[reply]
(jcwren) RE: (a lot) Find files older than x days and delete them by jcwren (Prior) on Aug 22, 2000 at 23:19 UTC
Actually, you can do both. To search for multiple file types, type something like '.bat;.html' in the search box. To save the search critera, click File\|Save Search. To save the results of the search, make sure that Options\|Save Results is checked, then click File\|Save Search. There may be a way to save the results as a text file, but I'm not aware of it. I usually just cut'n'paste if I need something like that. --Chris e-mail jcwren	[reply]