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

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.

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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

{} \;

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