[SOLVED] Find command issue

zivota · 10-05-2010, 04:59 PM

I am using find to search for .tgz files modified more than 7 days ago and delete them.

find /directory/ -iname backup*.tgz -daystart -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \

My problem is that find will go through the content of tarball as well and list all content. I want to only search main tarball and delete it if older than 7 days.

Tinkster · 10-05-2010, 05:35 PM

Ummm ... if it does then it's because you told it to, and it's NOT
what the invocation above will do.

Cheers,
Tink

zivota · 10-05-2010, 05:40 PM

Directory I am searching is mounted NFS share. Can that cause the issue?

zivota · 10-05-2010, 06:25 PM

Problem solved. There was an issue with NFS server.

grail · 10-05-2010, 06:36 PM

Please mark as SOLVED then.