[Dovecot] OT: Cron Output When Deleting Files

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:17:06PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jeff Grossman wrote:
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> >find ./ -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm
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> >I don't know that much about bash scripting.  I would like the output to 
> >tell me how many files were deleted.  Can anybody share with me how can I 
> >get that done, or point in the correct direction?
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> find ./ -type f -ctime +14 |tee /tmp/find-rm | xargs rm
> wc -l /tmp/find-rm
> rm /tmp/find-rm

Or, having the right version of rm:

find ./ -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm -v | wc -l

regards
- -- tomas
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