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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:16:05 +0100
From: James Nallen <James DOT Nallen AT may DOT ie>
Subject: unexpected behaviour of 'find' command
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Hi,

I'm running cygwin-1.3.2, setup-2.78.2.3 on w2k pro in stand-alone mode.

The following file,
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None          154 Aug 28 11:43 del_oldfiles.out

contains

#! /bin/sh
rm -f '/home/Administrator/oldfiles.txt'
/usr/bin/find.exe /e/work/DBA_Scripts -depth -type f -mtime -4 -exec rm -f 
{} \;
date >> oldfiles.txt


When this file is executed from the command shell, it executes as expected. 
When it is executed from a Cron job, the find command seems to do nothing. 
Anyone know why this is so?


Regards,

James Nallen,
NUI Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.


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