[SunHELP] why does this find cmd not work

Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro
Mon Oct 7 03:15:00 CDT 2002


I tried this command and it seems to work very well unless you want to
remove some sub-directories .... you'll need to specify additional flags
to rm to remove directories too, I think

regards,
Adrian.

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Simon Jespersen wrote:

> Hi!
> Does anyone have a clue about this find command issue
> when i type
> find . -ctime +1
> i get 23 hits, and thats fine
> when i then do this
>  find . -ctime +1 -exec rm {} \;
> It returns 0
> but no files are removed, is there some issue with change time, access time,
> when one tries to execute such commands,
> Best regards
> Simon Jespersen
> Project engineer
> Pine Tree Systems A/S
> Damhaven 5d
> DK-7100 Vejle
> Email: shj at pine.dk
> Phone: +4575724477
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