[ale] deleting old files

Tue May 22 23:45:39 EDT 2001

OK,
As having been bitten by this command, my suggestion is to exec the 'ls'
command, rather than the 'rm' command first.  If you like what you see,
change the ls command to rm.  In the ksh shell, set -o vi works really
nice. Then do a ^k to retrieve the prevoius command.  You can use the vi
commands to edit the line..

This information comes to you after I had to do a 24GB recover from tape
with a command gone bad :-(

Test first...Production later

Steve

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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> 
> 
> This syntax is correct.  Also, a slight variation:
> find / -atime +100 -exec rm {} \;
> 
> ...really boils down to the same thing.
> 
> * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *
> 
> THIS COMMAND IS VERY DANGEROUS!  I EXECUTED A VARIATION OF THIS IN A USER
> SPACE ON A SERVER AT WORK (using gzip rather than rm) AND IT TARGETTED AN
> EXECUTABLE THAT WAS ONLY NEEDED AT BOOT TIME.  SINCE THIS SERVER WAS
> SEVERAL MONTHS BETWEEN BOOTS, IT WASN'T NOTICED TO BE MISSING FOR SOME
> TIME.  Fortunately, it was just vncpasswd, so it could be fairly easily
> replaced after booting, but it can be much worse.
> 
> * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jason Lynn wrote:
> 
> > You could use the find command... though I think this would be a dangerous
> > thing to do.
> >
> > find / -atime +100 -exec rm -f "{}" ";"
> >
> > You might check my syntax (and logic) for the above command before executing
> > it.  ;)
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> > >From: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
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> > >Subject: [ale] deleting old files
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> > >If I have a machine that has been mastered and is "production ready", can I
> > >issue a command to wipe out all the files that haven't been accessed in a
> > >while?  Specifically, I want to make an embedded system, so I want my disk
> > >usage to be as small as possible.  When I have everything I'm going to need
> > >on the machine, I want to issue a command to "delete all files not
> > >accessed/modified since: xxxx".  Can I do this?  Can anyone think of
> > >something I may have overlooked before I do this?
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance...
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