[CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

[Les Mikesell]

On 1/25/2010 8:49 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Anas Alnaffar wrote:
>> I tried to run this command
>>
>> find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
>>
>
> Should have been: find ./ -name \*.access\* -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;

No difference.  If the path is omitted, current versions of find assume 
the current directory, and double quotes are fine for avoiding shell 
expansion of wildcards.  (But, I'm guessing the quotes were omitted on 
the command that generated the error).

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   Les Mikesell
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