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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help - we lost all our files!
Message-ID: <3792@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 29 Jun 91 23:47:46 GMT
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In article <8928@awdprime.UUCP> sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders) writes:
 > dickson@escob1.UUCP (Dave Dickson) writes:
 > > Help!  We have been running the crontab line shown below
 > > 45 3 * * * find /tmp/* /usr/tmp/* -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm -r
 > I suggest using "find -xdev" or the equiv on your system,
Will not help.  Dan Bernstein gives an example why this would fail.
An easier example that could be the result of a single typo would be:
	touch '/tmp/a .'
due to the way xargs handles its input it is not suitable to process the
output from find.
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl