[X-Unix] script question (cron - adobefnt*.lst)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hi Don. I can't say much about cron, but in both cases of your find 
string the only thing you're doing is "escaping" the ";" so that the 
executing shell does not interpret it. I'd think both options are just 
alright for cron, since it just spawns a shell to run the specified 
commands. Which shell... that is open to customization. About not going 
into other volumes with find, what you're looking for is the -x flag:

find -x / -name "AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} \;

	Read about it in the man page for a more complete explanation than 
what I can reproduce here. Finally, I'd double quote the searched 
string with wild card just to be safe..., call me paranoid!

	Hope that helps. Regards,...


		Juan


On Jan 8, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Don Montalvo wrote:

> i've been trying to create a cron script that will search the entire 
> boot volume for all instances of "AdobeFnt*.lst" and delete those 
> files. here are two scripts (slightly different syntax) that seem to 
> do the trick but i wanted to run it by you guys (my gurus...my 
> gods...my...um...well, you get the idea <g>)...
>
> these two seem to do the same thing:
>
> 	find / -name 'AdobeFnt*.lst' -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> 		(and)
>
> 	find / -name "AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} ';'
>
> first question: which script is best for using as cron job?
>
> second question: users will keep volumes mounted...is there a way to 
> keep the script from searching anything that's not a local disk?
>
> ====here's the terminal display====
>
> [montalvdpb:~] root # find / -name "AdobeFnt*.lst" -exec rm -f {} ';'
> find: /Volumes/SHARE/.Trashes: Permission denied
> find: /Volumes/SHARE/dropboxes: Permission denied
> find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/0: Permission denied
> find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/501: Permission denied
> find: /Volumes/SHARE/Temporary Items/502: Permission denied
> [montalvdpb:~] root #
>
> ===================================
>
> thanks!
> don