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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive 2.2 File zapper.
Message-ID: <11@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 16:17:36 GMT
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Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch
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jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:

>touch /lost+found
>find /lost+found -mtime +14 -exec rm -rf {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1

	... except that touch will create a FILE if the entity does not
	already exist. Better to do something like:

	if [ -d /lost+found ]; do
		find ....
	fi