ls and rm command

From: <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:46:55 -0500
Message-ID: <0684DA55864E404F8AD2E2EBDFD557DA60067D@JAXMSG01.crowley.com>

This happened using mtime and atime. I list everything older than X days, then rm them, then use the same list command again, except that now all the remaing files list? Solaris 5.8.

This does not happen with -exec but -exec is slower, and it doesn't happen with {} \; - see below. Anyone have any tips?

WITH XARGS
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +245 | xargs ls -lt
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 746678 Apr 2 2007
./access_log.20070401_0643
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +245 | xargs rm jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +245 | xargs ls -lt total 442776
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 444643 Dec 3 13:31 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 42519 Dec 3 11:38 event_log

drwxr-----   2 oracle   dba         1536 Dec  3 08:39 archive


-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba       925017 Dec  3 00:00

access_log.20071202_0000


-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba       925017 Dec  2 00:00

access_log.20071201_0000


-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba       925017 Dec  1 00:00

access_log.20071130_0000
............... about 250 lines.

WITH -EXEC
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +243 -exec ls -lt {} \;
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 924990 Apr 3 2007
./access_log.20070402_0000
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 924990 Apr 4 2007
./access_log.20070403_0000
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +243 -exec rm {} \; jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +243 -exec ls -lt {} \;

jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +240 | xargs ls -lt {} \;

{}: No such file or directory
;: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 924990 Apr 7 2007
./access_log.20070406_0000
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 924990 Apr 6 2007
./access_log.20070405_0000
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 924990 Apr 5 2007
./access_log.20070404_0000
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +240 | xargs rm {} \; {}: No such file or directory
;: No such file or directory
jaxlawdw > find . -name "access_log.*" -atime +240 | xargs ls -lt {} \; {}: No such file or directory
;: No such file or directory

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
joel.patterson_at_crowley.com
x72546
904 727-2546

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