RE : Re: RE : OT: find command on rhel4 not working with mtime

Jared,
Honestly, I didn't searched too far, because I use this find command to clean the export dumps for some small databases. And as it is executed every week, the number of files is always 7 so it has virtually no impact on perfs. But I'll give it a try with xargs, hovewer. Thanks,

Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> a écrit : On 7/12/06, Marius Raicu <mariu200_at_yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, I'm on RHEL3 and I use something like this, which works

/usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print -exec /bin/rm {} \;

You know of course, that '-exec CMD {} \:' is evil.

For simple commands that accept a single argument, xargs is superior.

eg. /usr/bin/find /u08/bla/bla/*.* -mtime +31 -print | xargs rm

-exec forks and executes a shell for each file, xargs does not.  

Try comparing the execution times of both methods.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
 


Regards,
Marius
 		
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