On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:12:59PM -0700, Grant wrote: > I've been using the script from here: > > http://www.icdevgroup.org/docs/glossary/expire.html > > in a crontab as follows: > > # find /pathtocat/tmp -type f -mtime +3 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm > # find /pathtocat/tmp -type d -empty -mtime +3 -depth | xargs > --no-run-if-empty rmdir > # find /pathtocat/session -type f -mtime +3 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm > # find /pathtocat/session -type d -empty -mtime +3 -depth | xargs > --no-run-if-empty rmdir > > Today I tried to run these commands manually and I got: > > "find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a > non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-depth > affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after > it). Please specify options before other arguments." > > I moved the -depth option and the commands executed without error: > > # find /pathtocat/tmp -type f -mtime +3 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm > # find /pathtocat/tmp -depth -type d -empty -mtime +3 | xargs > --no-run-if-empty rmdir > # find /pathtocat/session -type f -mtime +3 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm > # find /pathtocat/session -depth -type d -empty -mtime +3 | xargs > --no-run-if-empty rmdir > > Should the docs be updated? Updated, thanks. You can send future docs updates to suppressed . It is a mailing list to which you can also subscribe: http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/docs -doc _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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