On Tue Aug 14 13:53:33 EDT 2007, Shawn McMahon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:47 -0400, ODEN,MARK THOMAS wrote: >> >> >> > find /ftp/traces -cmin +1440 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \; >> > > Thanks Shawn. Can you help me understand what "{} \;" does >> (how to interpret it)? > > {} substitutes the current file found; basically inserts what > "-print" > would have output. The ";" says to do one invocation of the > command per > file; a "+" would be used to do something different that I've > never once > done and thus can't be sure I understand. The "\" is necessary > or the > shell interprets the ";" as something else. > > See the man page for more detail. Hint: to search a man page for > "{}" > you'd need to do "/\{\}" > > Thanks again Shawn. So a problem I should have anticipated; the new find command only finds files (as I requested...) but it does not take care of the folders that were created by the log backup. Any way to take care of these w/o deleting the root folder as was the problem before? ~Mark Oden