[PLUG] Script not working as intended

[John Meissen]

On 12/15/19 6:22 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Yesterday I put this command in root's crontab:
>
> # remove all files in /tmp not modified in 7 days daily at 1:20
> 20 1 * * * find /tmp -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm -f { } ';'
>
> It is not working as I expected since there are files in /tmp as old 
> as last
> August. There are also old directories not modified for months.
>
First of all, directories won't be affected because you specified '-f', 
although I would expect files in those directories to be affected.

Second, what happens if you run it yourself (as root)? Try replacing the 
-exec ... with -print to make sure your test arguments are finding the 
files you expect.

> Should I put this in a shell script and use 'test' first? Would the old
> subdirectories removal be fixed by changing the rm option to -rf without
> adversely affecting the results?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
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