On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:

centos@911networks.com wrote:

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Hi,

I am trying to delete files that are more than 7 days old. When I run it interactively it works, no problem, but it does not run from a file stored in cron.daily. The rest of that daily file runs properly. [The execute bit is on].

I don't see anything in the /var/log/messages.

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#!/bin/bash

find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 | xarg rm

Any idea what am I missing?

Just a shot in the dark: Cron is kinda partial to absolute paths. Change your 1-liner to:

/usr/bin/find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 | xargs rm

That, and the "xargs" that Garrick pointed out.

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You can also do it like this

/usr/bin/find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 -print -exec rm -f {} ;

If you want to log the results that were deleted try this

/usr/bin/find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 -print -exec rm -f {} ; >> mylog 2> /dev/null