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From: james@dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help - we lost all our files!
Message-ID: <332@dlss2.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 91 16:01:51 GMT
References: <1347@escob1.UUCP>
Organization: RedRock Development
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In article <1347@escob1.UUCP> dickson@escob1.UUCP (Dave Dickson) writes:
>
>CRONTAB ENTRY:
>45 3 * * * find /tmp/* /usr/tmp/* -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm -r
>

	Is the purpose just to remove files in /tmp and /usr/tmp that are
older than one day?  If that is all then why not:

	find /tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
	find /usr/tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

	Either from lack of sophistication or just a desire to *keep it
simple*, I've never attempted using xargs like this.