Re: How keep only one copy .dmp?

On 7/17/07, GovindanK <gkatteri_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have seen this type of problem with unix. You will observe that
> running find $DMPDIR -name "*" -mtime 0 -exec rm {} \; (without the +)
> will give different results and is what you actually want ; In my env,
> i have put both;
>
>

I haven't got to say this lately, so here goes:

Don't used -exec, use instead xargs

eg. find . -name "*.log" -mtime -30 | xargs rm

Several orders of magnitude faster than -exec.

-exec forks a shell for every line output from find.

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