Originally posted by: kenlee

Hi,

I have been trying to use find to remove certain files but also exclude other files similar.

For instance,

I am trying to remove all files that end in 1 (eg 3453431 )and am -mtime +8 with a

find /dir/dir -name "*1" -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \:

Now in the same directory I also have some files that are named po32321 and I want to keep these files for 30 days. Now the command above will remove the po files that are older than 8 days as it also falls under that criteria.

My question is how can I exclude these po files from the find /dir/dir -name "*1" -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \: portion of the script and have them delete after the allotted 30 days?

I have tried many different methods that have been all but useless, i hope someone out there can help.

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: mmveiga

find /dir/dir -name "1" -a ! -name "po"

Marcelo.
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Originally posted by: mmveiga

Sorry my previous post was reformatted, breaking into two lines just to avoid the reformatting :

find /dir/dir -name "*1" \
-a ! -name "po*"

Marcelo.
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Originally posted by: kenlee

Thanks a heap Marcelo,

I think that is ok, I just need to confirm and confirm again that it is all good. You would not believe how close I came to that query, very frustrating.

Thanks again.
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