Re: Purging files in the IFS by date (aka which Scott Klement utility to use :) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Scott,

Ok that makes sense...

Two questions:
why doesn't the shell handle the wild card?

Assuming I don't have and subdirectories that match the name, would
this bite me in some way?
find /mydir/????.fin.cis0000.staf.input01.????????.zip –exec rm {} \;

Thanks!
Charles

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Technically speaking...

find /mydir/*.java

_does_ recurse. It recurses into all directories that end with *.java.
But, since folks don't typically use that name for directories, it
/effectively/ stops recursion.

On 5/14/2010 2:59 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

I had noticed that
find /mydir/*.java

didn't recurse, while

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