On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:08 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> > 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

And not strictly necessary, but to avoid errors causing xargs to do
something wonky, I'd do:

find /ftp/traces -cmin +1440 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;