Hello all,
I have the following command which deletes files that are one day old and that are of mp3 file type.
find /home/get/public_html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1
-type f -name "*.mp3" |xargs rm -f
The problem with this is when i run it, it sometimes says "fork": resource xargs not available.
Does this mean, this command first finds the file and then starts many process to delete each file?
Can someone help me re-write this, so that when a file is found, it is immediatly deleted rather than being piped to xargs?
Thanks all
EDIT:
find: invalid predicate `-delete' - I can't use that!
From stackoverflow
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Check your man page for find, it might support -delete, making it as simple as
find /home/get/public_html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 \ -mtime +1 -type f -name "*.mp3" -delete -
Perhaps you can use the "-delete" flag to find, instead of piping to xargs?
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what about trying:
find /home/get/public_html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1 -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;
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