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Old February 11th, 2004, 03:38 AM
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Simple Cron job
I need delete all dir in client_download create or modified more than 5 minutes ago

I use this cron :

find /home/mysite/public_html/client_download -type d -cmin +5 -exec rm -f {} \;

But Cron send me the message :

rm: cannot remove `/home/mysite/public_html/client_download': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/home/flextic/public_html/mysite/7pN4VU9qlf1jSdFdtWy8': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `/home/flextic/public_html/mysite/XSZ31ZS82E': Is a directory


???
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Old February 11th, 2004, 05:50 AM
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Change this:

rm -f
to
rm -rf

Hope this helps.
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Old February 11th, 2004, 07:29 AM
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Change this:

rm -f
to
rm -rf

Hope this helps.


perfect

but .. why this ?

thks a lot
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Old February 11th, 2004, 12:30 PM
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because "rm" doesn't remove directories by default... check out "man rm"

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Old February 11th, 2004, 01:30 PM
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new problem

the final is this

find /home/mysite/public_html/client_download/ -type d -cmin +20 -exec rm -rf {} \;

but the cron must delete dir client_download


I must delete only dir "inside" client download

why ?
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