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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8685.0. "crontab and find, 3.2d" by STOSS1::HORVATH () Mon Feb 03 1997 12:06

    Hello,
    
    Have the following crontab entry which works fine but I need a log copy
    of the files deleted, how can I achieve this?  I'm having trouble
    directing the output.
    
    
08 00 * * * find / \( -name core \) -exec rm -f {} \;
    
    Thanks,

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
8685.1	One work-around	GREGOR::OPP		`Mon Feb 03 1997 13:17`	11
	One method that works is to embed the command within a command file and then queue the command file for execution. So, your entry would become something like 08 00 * * ... /usr/users/command_file and command_file would contain your find command and possibly a cd command, if necessary. Greg
8685.2		BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne	Wake up, time to die	`Mon Feb 03 1997 21:51`	6
	Just off the top of my head: 08 00 * * * find / -name core\|tee /var/tmp/delfiles.txt\|xargs rm -f but as .1 says, you might want to put this in a script. PJDM