Are there any scripts out there that will search for a particular file and if it finds it, it will delete it and would be driven by a simple cron job?


thanks

Originally posted by goodness0001
Are there any scripts out there that will search for a particular file and if it finds it, it will delete it and would be driven by a simple cron job?


thanks

something like this?


find -type f -name "pattern" | xargs rm -f

I presume "pattern" is the name of the file to delete.

How do you get it to search a certain directory and all of its subdirectories for a particular file?


find -type f -name "tester.txt" | xargs rm -f would only work from the directory it is executed in

Originally posted by goodness0001
How do you get it to search a certain directory and all of its subdirectories for a particular file?


find -type f -name "tester.txt" | xargs rm -f would only work from the directory it is executed in


find /path -type f -name "tester.txt" | xargs rm -f


Of course I've always used -exec with find, instead of a pipe.

That works great!