On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, tickticker wrote: > i believe that the line: > > cd /home/virtual; find [a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30 > > gives me the list i need (#1 in your list) so that > > cd /home/virtual; find [a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; The earlier example had /home/[a-z]*/ ... so you could/should have used /home/virtual/[a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur > is the final solution > > Thanks for all your help!!! I really have to buy a regex book i suppose, and > I hear O'Reilly has a good one By the way, this is shell "globbing" not "regex". Maybe your system has glob(7) and/or glob(3) manual pages. Have fun! --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss