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

[Don Montalvo]

thanks for your help! i'll test tomorrow and will report back.

don

>	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