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I'm sure this is straight forward and answered somewhere, but I didn't manage to find what I was looking for. Basically, I'm trying to run a cron script to clear the contents of a given directory every 7 days. So far I have tried the following,
find /myDir -mtime 7 -exec rm -rf {} \;
This however also deletes the parent directory myDir, which I do not want. I also tried,
find /myDir -type f -type d -mtime 7 -delete
which appeared to do nothing. I also tried,
fnd /myDir -type d -delete
which deleted all but the parent directory just as I need. However, a warning message came up reading,
relative path potentially not safe
I'd appreciate if anyone can rectify my script so that it safely deletes all subdirectories in folder.
Many thanks. =)
UPDATE: I decided to go for the following,
find /myDir -mindepth 1 -mtime 7 -delete
Based upon what I learned from all who replied. Again, many thanks to you all.
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To remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, -r . Directories that are removed with the rmdir command cannot be recovered, nor can directories and their contents removed with the rm -r command.
To permanently remove a directory in Linux, use either rmdir or rm command: For empty directories, use rmdir [dirname] or rm -d [dirname] For non-empty directories, use rm -r [dirname]
What about
cd myDir/ ; find . -type d -delete
assuming that you run this from myDir parent directory.
If you can't guarantee myDir exists, then this is safer:
cd myDir/ && find . -type d -delete
Try:
find /myDir -mindepth 1 -mtime 7 -exec rm -rf {} \;
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