On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, ODEN,MARK THOMAS wrote:

> I have a daily cron job that tars and gzips hourly logs and places them in a
> new directory (/ftp/oldtraces) and deletes logs older than 24 hours. I was
> running the backup script w/o the daily delete command to test that the
> backups were going well and then enabled the delete command. Unfortunately
> the delete command deleted the entire /ftp/traces folder (including the
> folder itself) which caused no more logs to be uploaded. Can you help me fix
> this line so it doesn't delete the folder?
>
> find /ftp/traces -cmin +1440 -print | xargs rm -rf

Adding -type f will probably solve it. That way, find will only return
files...not directories.

find /ftp/traces -cmin +1440 -type f -print | xargs rm -rf

I also wonder if you really want -cmin or if -mmin would be more
appropriate?

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