Find Command Syntax

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:26:07AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm trying to write a script to feed the mail in my spam folder to 
> Spamassassin's sa-learn and then delete the mails older than 1 day in 
> that spam folder.  Here's my current directory listing:

> I'm trying to use the find command to do the deleting but am having 
> trouble with the syntax.  For testing, I'm using this command:
> 
> blacklamb> find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur \! -newerct 1d -print
> blacklamb>
> 
> It finds nothing.  I read in the manual that time specifications don't 
> have much meaning without the '-' or '+' operator so I try adding it:

Try:

    find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur -type f -mtime +1 -print

Or you might want to use -ctime instead of -mtime -- I think mtime is
probably a more reliable measure than ctime.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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