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Code snippet to delete files in a directory

Asked by luke_airig in KornShell (ksh), Unix Operating Systems

Tags: ksh Korn shell Unix

Unix version is: SunOS 5.10 Generic_141414-02 sun4v sparc SUNW,T5240

I am encountering the following error:
'ksh: /usr/bin/find: arg list too long'

The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge and I would prefer to not have to provide multiple file name patterns to match.

Can someone provide an alternative code snippet that will:

1) Delete all files in a directory
2) Not delete any files in any sub-directories (prune functionality)
3) Not delete any sub-directories in the directory

TIA

Luke

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             #!/bin/ksh
FILE_AGE_CRITERION_IN_DAYS=$1
FILE_NAME_PATTERN_TO_MATCH=*
DIR_TO_CLEAN=$3       
LOG_DIR=$4
 
FILES_DELETED_COUNT=0
for FILE in `find $DIR_TO_CLEAN/*  -prune  -type f  -name "$FILE_NAME_PATTERN_TO_MATCH"  -mtime +$FILE_AGE_CRITERION_IN_DAYS  -print`
do
  rm -f  $FILE                                       
  let "FILES_DELETED_COUNT+=1"
done
echo "- Deleted $FILES_DELETED_COUNT file(s) from $DIR_TO_CLEAN" | tee -a $LOG_DIR/$LOG_FILE

           
         

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Code snippet to delete files in a directory

Asked by luke_airig in KornShell (ksh), Unix Operating Systems

Tags: ksh Korn shell Unix

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