Re: skinning a cat

From: Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:20:33 +0000
Subject: Re: skinning a cat
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Jochem Maas wrote:
either way, I've just learn't something new as far as shellscripting goes :-) apart from the xargs command ... that still does my head in (don't worry I'll look it up ... for the umpteenth time).
find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm
FWIW, it's nicer to do: $ find $lockfine -cmin +60 -exec rm {} \; This method handles files with spaces in them, where are the xargs method does not (not that it matters in this case). HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]

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