[PLUG] help with a bash script?
Russ Gilman-Hunt
gilmanhunt at comcast.net
Tue Jul 22 19:16:01 UTC 2003
Good evening.
I'm using a bash script I believe I modified from one posted here to clean
out our FTP directory every night. I have a bunch of non-technical users who
need to place (for instance) 50 MB files on an FTP location, and they'll
forget to remove it later. So I cobbled this script up (from one that was
posted to the plug list) to delete files older than one day (so files posted
on Monday would be deleted Tuesday Night.)
this is the script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/find /var/ftp/pub/ -type d -mtime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf
/usr/bin/find /var/ftp/incoming/ -type d -mtime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 \
/bin/rm -rf
Yes, pretty simple stuff.
It works - mostly. It would work perfectly if it didn't truncate the
directories; it removes the pub/ and the /incoming directories.
How would I go about fixing it?
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