help with a bash script

[Joel Hammer]

xargs has always been an extra nuisance to me...

But,
shouldn't these scripts have some provision for file names with
blanks and other annoying characters?

So, shouldn't your script be:

     find . -type f -mtime +5 | xargs -i{} rm {}

My script has the same problem.

So:
  dir -1 | find -atime +5 -maxdepth 1 -type f > junk
  while read a
  do
  rm "$a"
  done < junk

On the other hand, I do not think my original script can be salvaged so
easily:
     rm  "$(find -atime +5 -maxdepth 1 -type f)"
Doesn't work. It is all one long line.

Joel 

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:01:55PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 0.4K blaze of typing glory, Marianne Taylor wrote:
> > I have written a bash script to backup my IMAP mail each night.  Unfortunately 
> > I haven't figured out a way to delete the older files.  I want to keep only 
> > five days of backup, any ideas how I would pick out the older files and 
> > delete them?
> 
> At first blush, I would use the find utility to locate all of the files
> in that directory  that are older than five days, then pipe the output
> to xargs, thus (untested):
> 
> --- cut---
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /some/dir
> find . -type f -mtime +5 | xargs rm
> --- cut ---
> 
> This finds all regular files (-type f), starting in the current 
> directory (.), that were modifed more than 5 days ago (-mtime +5), 
> pipes the output to xargs (| xargs), and then passes the filenames to rm.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Kurt
> -- 
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