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Re: Question about scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Thu Oct 15 15:44:39 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:44:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
To: Redhat ML <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9810151423210.17065-100000@www.inetnow.net>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 zappa@inetnow.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> I wrote a bash script to run as a cron job which removes those pesky files
> emacs leaves behind. Here is my script:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
>
> find / \( -name a.out -o -name core -o -name '*~' \
> -o -name '.*~' -o -name '#*#' \) -type f -atime +10 \
> -exec rm { } \; -o -fstype nfs -prune -o -path /mnt/win95c -prune \
> -o -path /mnt/win95d -prune -o -path /mnt/win95e -prune
>
> exit 0
>
> If I run this find command at a bash shell prompt everything works fine
> but if I place it in a script I get errors about can't find whatever file.
> If I replace -exec with -ok rm prompts me to remove the correct files but I
> still get an error after it tries to remove each file. Any ideas?
You have a space between the { and } brackets.
Remove the space and it will work fine.
This:
-exec rm { } \;
Should be like this
-exec rm {} \;
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