RE: Purging files in the IFS by date (aka which Scott Klement utility to use :)

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there a switch I'm not seeing to make find non-recursive?

Not directly unless you install the gnu utilities (which I do, much to
Scott's displeasure).  With the gnu utilities, there is a -maxdepth
parameter.

You could, however, do something like:

find /my/path -type f -name ${MY_MASK} | grep -v '/my/path/.*/'

This would filter out anything that had an extra slash in the name.  If you
want to limit to two levels:

find /my/path ... | grep -v '/my/path/.*/.*/'

Et cetera.

Dennis Lovelady
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > What's the currently recommended way of purging IFS files by date?
> > >
> > > I found an old utility from Scott Klement, that comes really close
> to
> > > perfect.  The only issue is it purges everything in a given
> directory,
> > > I'd like to be able to pass a wildcard file name.  I haven't look at
> > > it in detail, but I suspect that modifying it to process file name
> > > wildcards would be non-trivial.  Then again, perhaps not if I can
> find
> > > an good example of comparing a wild card value to another string,
> > > (regex perhaps? but might be overkill).
> >
> > find /my_path -mtime ${PURGE_DAYS} -name "${WILDCARD_NAMES}" -exec rm
> {} \;
> > Dennis Lovelady
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