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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: crontab Daemon-from-Hell
Message-ID: <536@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 05:49:03 GMT
References: <19071@cup.portal.com> <14373@bfmny0.UUCP> <1526@sialis.mn.org> <1528@sialis.mn.org> <1122@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <14271@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <14271@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hjespersen@trillium.waterloo.edu () writes:
>
> >>>	cd /usr/spool/uucppublic
> >>>	find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
>
>Ok, maybe I haven't been following this discussion closely enough
>but what is wrong with
>
>	find /usr/spool/uucppublic -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

Nothing, except I would make it:

find /usr/spool/uucppublic -type f -mtime +30 -print | xargs rm -f




John
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