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From: "Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: unexpected behaviour of 'find' command
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:23:40 -0700
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Just to remove a silly possibility, you didn't perchance run this from the
shell, see it remove files, then immediately schedule it as a cron job, and
see that the cron job didn't remove any files, did you?

If so, I think you'l see the same behavior if you run it from the shell
again.  You already removed all the files less than 4 days old.  Running it
again immediately after won't find anything else.

If that's not the case, then I don't know what the problem could be.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Nallen [mailto:James DOT Nallen AT may DOT ie]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:16 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: unexpected behaviour of 'find' command


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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