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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:54:48 +0300 (MSK)
From:      "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru>
To:        clefevre@cybercable.fr
Cc:        doconnor@gsoft.com.au, reichert@numachi.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: find, -delete, and relative paths
Message-ID:  <200011221754.UAA14466@aaz.links.ru>
In-Reply-To: <hf50a7tb.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> from "Cyrille Lefevre" at "Nov 22, 0 06:34:40 am"

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Cyrille Lefevre writes:
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote:
> > >  I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail
> > >  list archives:
> > >  
> > >  Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber:
> > >  
> > >    15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete
> > >  
> > >  I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly:
> > >  
> > >    find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe
> > >  
> > >  How can I suppress this warning?  Is it a bug in find, or did I
> > >  misunderstand the manpage?
> > 
> > I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete
> > a directory.
> > 
> > If you do ->
> > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete
> > 
> > it should work..
> 
> 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -depth \! -ctime 1 -delete
> 
> could be better, deletes file entries before directory ones.
> 
> PS : -a is not necessary, it's always implied except if -o of course.

Look at ports/sysutils/deleted
daemon that deletes old files, directories and other

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