[TriLUG] `find -delete` not deleting

[Roger via TriLUG]

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Roger Broseus

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On September 6, 2016 2:15:53 PM EDT, Aaron Morrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 6, 2016, at 13:03, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
>wrote:
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>> 
>> 
>> Why are you using find? Your directories are already named for
>> datestamps. Just have the cron job's shellscript calculate 7 days
>> ago (let's say 8/27/2016), then do rm -rf whatever/20160827.
>> 
>> SteveT
>> 
>
>So what if cron misses its trigger?  E.g. On a laptop that is off or
>sleeping? If so then this will miss removing that week old directory
>and no subsequent cron execution will remove it either. (I'll grant
>that some cron implementations try to recognize missed triggers and
>those may work)
>
>The find method will recover from that case and in fact may be more
>flexible if the conditions change. ( only want to remove symlinks? No
>problem.  )
>
>--am
>
>> Steve Litt 
>> September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
>> 
>> 
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