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rp346
rp346

Reputation: 7028

Find and delete file but not specific path

I am writing a script to cleanup user dir on "/srv". At present every user keeps some temp files on "/srv/$USER".

Following is my script :

for x in $(cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd); do 
   if [ -d "/srv/${x}" ]; then
   echo "/srv/${x}"
   find /srv/${x} -mindepth 1 -type f -not -amin -10080 -exec rm {} \;
   fi
done

So I tried this script replacing rm with ls 

/srv/abc
/srv/abc/2015-04-20-11-multi-interval.json
/srv/abc/2015-04-20-10-mimic.json
/srv/xyz
/srv/xyz/magnetic_hadoop/fabfile.py

here i want to exclude /srv/abc which is parent dir and delete only files, So I added -mindepth 1, but still I didn't get what I want.

Then I added -not -path /srv/${x} but no difference.

Anyone know what am I missing here ?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (1)

mARK bLOORE
mARK bLOORE

Reputation: 176

the '-type f' means that you will get only files. and your output shows that: after the folder name which comes from the echo command, only files are shown. unless you want to leave user folders intact, you don't want the '-mindepth 1' option; it does not change the fact that '-type f'

Upvotes: 1

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