Hi!

I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
hours. Like this:

find  /MYDIR/  -name "MYPATTERN" -type d -mmin +120 -exec rm -R  {} \;

But there ist no option like "mmin" in Solaris 9, I can only select
files older than whole  days by "-mtime", but  not by hours.

Is there  someting like "gnu-find" I can use oder another way to
select files accessed some hours ago?

Thanks!

You need to compile and install gnu find.

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

Frank Schmitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
> hours. Like this:
>
> find  /MYDIR/  -name "MYPATTERN" -type d -mmin +120 -exec rm -R  {} \;
>
> But there ist no option like "mmin" in Solaris 9, I can only select
> files older than whole  days by "-mtime", but  not by hours.
>
> Is there  someting like "gnu-find" I can use oder another way to
> select files accessed some hours ago?
> 
> Thanks!

You need to compile and install gnu find.

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

--
- JNR.

Frank Schmitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
> hours. Like this:
>
> find  /MYDIR/  -name "MYPATTERN" -type d -mmin +120 -exec rm -R  {} \;
>
> But there ist no option like "mmin" in Solaris 9, I can only select
> files older than whole  days by "-mtime", but  not by hours.
>
> Is there  someting like "gnu-find" I can use oder another way to
> select files accessed some hours ago?
> 
> Thanks!

"JNR" <mjanardhan@gmail.com> writes:
> You need to compile and install gnu find.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

You shouldn't need to do that.  You can get GNU find for S9 already
compiled and in package format from any of several sources.  It's on
the companion CD as SFWgfind.  It's in blastwave.org as findutils.
It's on sunfreeware.com as findutils-4.2.27.

If you're using Solaris and you haven't looked into the free sources
of precompiled software for it, you may want to do that.  There's a
lot available.

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James Carlson <james.d.carlson@sun.com> writes:

>"JNR" <mjanardhan@gmail.com> writes:
>> You need to compile and install gnu find.
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

>You shouldn't need to do that.  You can get GNU find for S9 already
>compiled and in package format from any of several sources.  It's on
>the companion CD as SFWgfind.  It's in blastwave.org as findutils.
>It's on sunfreeware.com as findutils-4.2.27.

>If you're using Solaris and you haven't looked into the free sources
>of precompiled software for it, you may want to do that.  There's a
>lot available.


Or he can use a more recent version of Solaris which does have
the -cmin/amin/mmin options.

Casper
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Expressed in this posting are my opinions.  They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

Frank Schmitz (AXHLTVXKGKBF@spammotel.com) wrote:
: Hi!
: 
: I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
: hours. Like this:
: 
: find  /MYDIR/  -name "MYPATTERN" -type d -mmin +120 -exec rm -R  {} \;
: 
: But there ist no option like "mmin" in Solaris 9, I can only select
: files older than whole  days by "-mtime", but  not by hours.
: 
: Is there  someting like "gnu-find" I can use oder another way to
: select files accessed some hours ago?

Some finds (from pres SYS V days) are happy with floating point
values for times that reduce to integers in seconds....
find .... -atime +.083333

-tim
http://web.abnormal.com

Frank Schmitz <AXHLTVXKGKBF@spammotel.com> wrote:
> Hi!

> I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
> hours. Like this:

> find  /MYDIR/  -name "MYPATTERN" -type d -mmin +120 -exec rm -R  {} \;

> But there ist no option like "mmin" in Solaris 9, I can only select
> files older than whole  days by "-mtime", but  not by hours.

Even if you don't have access to a 'find' that accepts minutes, you can
use 'touch' to create a file of the correct age.  Then use find -newer
(or ! -newer) to select files newer or older than that point in time.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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Frank Schmitz wrote:
> I run Solaris 9 and  want to delete some directories older than 2
> hours. 

Create a timestamp file that is 2 hours old, using TZ tricks, like

touch -t `TZ=GMT+3 date '+%y%m%d%H%M'` .TIMESTAMP
find /dir -type d \! -newer .TIMESTAMP .....

The environ(5) man page has details about the TZ format.
You might have to compensate for std vs dst timezones.

On 2006-11-27 20:46:45 +0000, Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com> said:

> Even if you don't have access to a 'find' that accepts minutes, you can
> use 'touch' to create a file of the correct age.  Then use find -newer
> (or ! -newer) to select files newer or older than that point in time.

Now that is a really neat trick.  Do you know (could be easily checked 
obviously but I'm not near a Solaris box that is on) if it is smart 
enough not to stat the file repeatedly?

--tim

Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On 2006-11-27 20:46:45 +0000, Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com> said:

>> Even if you don't have access to a 'find' that accepts minutes, you can
>> use 'touch' to create a file of the correct age.  Then use find -newer
>> (or ! -newer) to select files newer or older than that point in time.

> Now that is a really neat trick.  Do you know (could be easily checked 
> obviously but I'm not near a Solaris box that is on) if it is smart 
> enough not to stat the file repeatedly?

Could look at the code, but no I think it just stats the file once to
get a time (rather like the -mtime and others generate a time) and that
is checked against the files.  I only see one stat on a test.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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>If you're using Solaris and you haven't looked into the free sources
>of precompiled software for it, you may want to do that.  There's a
>lot available.

 I have installed that package.

I wasn�t quite shure if there was a "find"-package, thanks for the
advice!