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Shell expansion.
When you pass
Code:
/var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine/new/*
to find the '*' portion of that get expanded into everything below the .../quaratine/new/ directory. So if there are 200 files below there you have, in effect, passed 200 files to find. find takes a starting point and recursively searches from there. You can limit the recursion with the -prune flag (IIRC, man find to be sure).
Also, if you are looking for everything, you dont need to pass '*' to -name, you can just let find output everything it finds. The -name flag is generally used to limit output.
Just out of curiosity, is ther any reason you are not just doing something like
Code:
rm -rf /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine/new
Since it seems like you are not limiting the search to any subset of what is in there...
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Originally Posted by L7Sqr
Just out of curiosity, is ther any reason you are not just doing something like
Code:
rm -rf /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine/new
None, though I don't want to get rid of the new dir, just what's in it. so I would add a /* after new. I could do something like that and make a cron job, sure.
But also, how about this: if I want to delete all the files in new daily, could I just treat that dir as a tmp dir and put a line in /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch? Something like this...
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