[ale] deleting old files

[Jonathan Rickman]

find / -atime +100 -exec rm -i "{}" ";"

That might be a better idea...(note the "-i")

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Jonathan Rickman
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:

> OK,
> As having been bitten by this command, my suggestion is to exec the 'ls'
> command, rather than the 'rm' command first.  If you like what you see,
> change the ls command to rm.  In the ksh shell, set -o vi works really
> nice. Then do a ^k to retrieve the prevoius command.  You can use the vi
> commands to edit the line..
>
> This information comes to you after I had to do a 24GB recover from tape
> with a command gone bad :-(
>
> Test first...Production later
>
> Steve
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> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > This syntax is correct.  Also, a slight variation:
> > find / -atime +100 -exec rm {} \;
> >
> > ...really boils down to the same thing.
> >
> > * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *
> >
> > THIS COMMAND IS VERY DANGEROUS!  I EXECUTED A VARIATION OF THIS IN A USER
> > SPACE ON A SERVER AT WORK (using gzip rather than rm) AND IT TARGETTED AN
> > EXECUTABLE THAT WAS ONLY NEEDED AT BOOT TIME.  SINCE THIS SERVER WAS
> > SEVERAL MONTHS BETWEEN BOOTS, IT WASN'T NOTICED TO BE MISSING FOR SOME
> > TIME.  Fortunately, it was just vncpasswd, so it could be fairly easily
> > replaced after booting, but it can be much worse.
> >
> > * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jason Lynn wrote:
> >
> > > You could use the find command... though I think this would be a dangerous
> > > thing to do.
> > >
> > > find / -atime +100 -exec rm -f "{}" ";"
> > >
> > > You might check my syntax (and logic) for the above command before executing
> > > it.  ;)
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
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> > > >Subject: [ale] deleting old files
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> > > >If I have a machine that has been mastered and is "production ready", can I
> > > >issue a command to wipe out all the files that haven't been accessed in a
> > > >while?  Specifically, I want to make an embedded system, so I want my disk
> > > >usage to be as small as possible.  When I have everything I'm going to need
> > > >on the machine, I want to issue a command to "delete all files not
> > > >accessed/modified since: xxxx".  Can I do this?  Can anyone think of
> > > >something I may have overlooked before I do this?
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