General :: Ran "find / -mtime +1 -exec Rm {} ;" - Trying To Clear A Directory ?
Jul 6, 2011
I'm very very tired, worked all night long, and I did't sleep for hours... So I'm like a zombie now... half awake, and half asleep.
I was trying to clear a directory. Then I run the command cd to enter the directory, and then before thinking I run this dangerous command. on my Linux server: "find / -mtime +1 -exec rm {} ;"
I got a lot of:
Could this command have deleted something inside these directories? I'm afraid that the next reboot the server won't startup...
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Aug 12, 2010
I've got a script where I have to parse out the last modified time for a large amount of files. Piping the output for "ls" into "cut" seems to work most of the time, but the output is unpredictable.The "fields" argument doesn't find the date modified columns consistently, and using character count is as well since the output can vary in width depending on the file name
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Feb 2, 2011
I am writing a bash script which includes the find (and rm command with exec) command the options -mtime -15 or +15 so that files older 15 days must be deleted from the home directory. I think that -mtime +15 should be ok, but in which case does the option -mtime -15 really come in handy?? go back 15 days until today's date?
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Aug 12, 2010
Code:
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 username vuser 35553 Aug 9 18:15 note.20100809_1815.sql
[code]....
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Dec 25, 2009
I need to delete all *.trc files that are older than 30 days and I am getting a "Argument list too long" error. There are other files that should not be deleted which is why I am using the "*.trc" and newer files need to be kept as well. I have seen other postings but they do not cover both of the conditions. Below are 2 of the many attempts at doing this but I cannot get this to work.
find *.trc -mtime +31 -print| xargs rm -f {}
find *.trc -mtime +31 -print -exec rm -f {} ;
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Dec 1, 2010
I have some files on server with the date several months ago, but invisible for `find -mtime 7` search. When I list them as `ls -l` they look perfectly normal:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 347253 Jun 12 16:26 pedia_main.2010-06-12-04-25-02.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490144578 Nov 24 16:26 gsmforum_main.2010-11-24-04-25-02.sql.gz
"find -mtime" does not work as expected on files with different timezones?
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I am trying to automate an svnadmin dump command for a backup script, and I want to do something like this:
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This seems to work, in that it looks through each svn repository in /var/svn, and runs svnadmin dump on it.
However, the second {} in the exec command doesn't get substituted for the name of the directory being processed. It basically just results a single file named {}.svn.
I suspect that this is because the shell interprets > to end the find command, and it tries redirecting stdout from that command to the file named {}.svn.
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Apr 12, 2011
My system is old. Not debian.How do I clear out the mqueue directory? I don't want to delete it....just clear it out of the email that is clogging up my var partition. This old command doesn't seem to work anymore:find /var/spool/mqueue -exec rm'{}' ;Anybody know of the command to clear my mqueue.
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Code:
can't exec /bin/login: No such file or directory
Can see /bin/login from other distro what to do where to search?
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I have a bunch of .caf files in a directory that I want to convert to ogg but I cannot figure out way to do it (except manually). I want to do: sox filename.caf filename.ogg
[Code]...
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Sep 8, 2010
I have used this guide to install kernel in my linux cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-26.html stage 1 worked perfectly. Now at stage 2 when I write the command dir/ls in the tmp directory I see the file: linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 (2.6.26 is the version of my kernel) And now if I try to the tar function on my file and write it like this: Code: tar -xjvf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src it gives me couple of errors like:
tar: bzip2: can not exec: no such directory
tar: error is unrecoverable: exiting now
tar: child returned status 2
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May 15, 2011
i had a problem with the find command in bash (which i deem is close enough to a promming language, if not please move this thread :P). i tried to reduce the command to the problem. i want the backticks, or $() for that matter; to be evaluated by -exec of find, not by bash. is that a caveat of find?
Code:
$ find testd -exec echo `basename {}` ; #confused me
test
test/a
test/b
[code]...
edit: i found out whats causing this. `basename {}` gets evaluated by bash before find is invoked, returns {} and `find . -exec echo {} ;" is run. now my question is, how to escape this eveluation from happening before.
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Aug 21, 2010
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Code:
exec: 40: -jar: not found
I suspected this was something to do with my JAVA_HOME variable not being set, so I looked up how to do this and added it to my /etc/bash.bashrc file. Saying "echo $JAVA_HOME" does indeed return the correct path so I don't think this is the problem.
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Jul 13, 2011
I'm quite new to linux but I have configured a simple ftp server and it's working great. I have a FTP-Shared folder with upload and download subfolders. Under upload's and download's I have identical category subfolders like mp3's, movies, software etc. in both. As the guy's upload, I would like to create a line crontab where I can move all the content under /FTP-Shared/upload/mp3/* older than 14 day's to FTP-Shared/downloads/mp3/ recursively (Like in cp command), but the timestamp must be searched on the first directory and not sub files example: /mp3/Club Dance/CD1/Hallo world.mp3This is how far I got:[root@clients ~]# /usr/bin/find /FTP_Shared/upload/Mp3s/ -depth -mindepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec mv -f {} /FTP_Shared/download/Mp3s/ ;This command moves the directory and files, but it is not recursively
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