Re: Directory name problem...

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:20:45 +1100 (EST)

Joe wrote the following:
>
> Riley,
> I admin a machine, and do the same thing to wipe out cores every
> day. However, all i use is the following line in my root crontab:
>
> 0 6 * * * find / -name core -exec rm {} ';'

I think you may find:

find / -type f -name core -exec rm {} ';'

to do exactly what you want.

The -type f tells it to only look at files and as such you wont
be relying on error reporting from rm.

Check the manpage for mroe details.

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