unexpected behaviour of 'find' command

James Nallen James.Nallen@may.ie
Tue Aug 28 08:51:00 GMT 2001


At 08:23 28/08/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Just to remove a silly possibility, you didn't perchance run this from the
>shell, see it remove files, then immediately schedule it as a cron job, and
>see that the cron job didn't remove any files, did you?

No, I didn't.

>If so, I think you'l see the same behavior if you run it from the shell
>again.  You already removed all the files less than 4 days old.  Running it
>again immediately after won't find anything else.
>
>If that's not the case, then I don't know what the problem could be.

I've found out it's having problems with the path it's searching. I don't 
understand this.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Nallen [ mailto:James.Nallen@may.ie ]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:16 AM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: unexpected behaviour of 'find' command
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm running cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3 on w2k pro in stand-alone mode.
>
>The following file,
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None          154 Aug 28 11:43 del_oldfiles.out
>
>contains
>
>#! /bin/sh
>rm -f '/home/Administrator/oldfiles.txt'
>/usr/bin/find.exe /e/work/DBA_Scripts -depth -type f -mtime -4 -exec rm -f
>{} \;
>date >> oldfiles.txt
>
>
>When this file is executed from the command shell, it executes as expected.
>When it is executed from a Cron job, the find command seems to do nothing.
>Anyone know why this is so?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>James Nallen,
>NUI Maynooth,
>Co. Kildare,
>Ireland.
>
>
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