Re: deleting IFS files

[Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>]

sorry,   NOT root,   but   my  "/tmp/" folder   ( /tmp/ folder off the
root).

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:37 AM Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Don,
> on my system,   '/var/tmp/'   appears to be a symlnk to the root ('/')
>
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:38 AM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am obviously missing something ...
> >
> > if I strqsh and run
> >
> > find /home     -type f
> >
> > I see a long list of files
> >
> > But if I do the same on
> >
> > find /var/tmp     -type f
> >
> > I see nothing
> >
> > Or just
> >
> > find /var/tmp
> >
> > I still see nothing
> >
> > But there are thousands of files in /var/tmp
> >
> > Example
> >
> > Object link            Type
> > QACXAAJG80             STMF
> > QACXAAKPCF             STMF
> > QACXAALWZ5             STMF
> > QACXAAM1LV             STMF
> > QACXAAM3B3             STMF
> >
> > I actually want to delete these but the delete was not working using the
> > find command so I was trying to determine why and then found that the
> > files were not being selected.
> >
> > I can manually delete a single file from wrklnk.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what I am missing please.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Don
> >
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