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

Not Scott, but...

Charles, can you (will you please) cite the reference to shell not handling
the wildcard?

In the stated case, why would you bother with 'find'? Why not just:

rm /mydir/????.fin.cis0000.staf.input01.????????.zip

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper - and
she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator."
-- Bill Lawrence

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