find 30 days old and delete prints error msg file not found after deleting it

xombboxer · 02-24-2015, 08:17 AM

I have a shell script to find folders which are 25 days older and delete it, and put the deleted folder details into log file like this

Code:

 find /ahome/xxx/$FOLDER -type d -mtime +25  -exec ls -ld {} \;  -exec rm -rf {} \;  >> mylogfile.log

after running this command it deletes the folder and logs the folder deleted. But also print error msg

Code:

find: /ahome/prksh/dir/test: No such file or directory

How to suppress the error msg

rknichols · 02-24-2015, 12:14 PM

When the action is to delete things, you need to include the "-depth" option so that tar will act on the deeper parts of the tree first rather than deleting a directory it just found and then trying to recurse into it.

Code:

find /ahome/xxx/$FOLDER -depth -type d -mtime +25  -exec ls -ld {} \;  -exec rm -rf {} \;  >> mylogfile.log