Re: Find -mtime or -ctime from a Find module?


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Re: Find -mtime or -ctime from a Find module?

by RichardK (Parson)

on Sep 17, 2015 at 14:41 UTC ( [id://1142329]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Your shell problem sounds like you should be using xargs. something along these lines :-

find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f
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Re^2: Find -mtime or -ctime from a Find module?
by afoken (Chancellor) on Sep 18, 2015 at 05:06 UTC

find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

To avoid nasty surprises, change that to:

find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
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This way, find uses a null char instead of a line feed to seperate filenames, and xargs expects a null char instead of any whitespace between filenames. As the null char is the only char that can not be part of a filename, this is the only way to reliably separate filenames.

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