online quarantine?

[Spicer, Kevin]

S Mohan wrote:
> Another alternative is
> 
> find /path/to/quarantine -ctime +7 | xargs rm -rf
> 
Yes, but that would delete directories that may have more recent contents.  On the other hand my original line neglected to consider that there may be directories involved.

Thinking a bit more clearly than I was when I originally posted you probably also need a -depth in there, and append a /* to the path to avoid deleting the quarantine dir itself, plus some conditional stuff to get rid of directories.  So...

find /path/to/quarantine/* -ctime +7 -depth \! \( -type d -exec rmdir {} ';' \) -exec rm -f {} ';'

This does rely on rmdir failing when the directory is not empty, so you'll also want to append 

>/dev/null 2>&1

once its tested.







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