Howdy, 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 {} \; 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 -Tickticker Joseph Sinclair wrote: >A couple thoughts: >1) Consider just changing the directory to your home directory before running the find command, that would certainly simplify things. >2) You have un-escaped special characters in the find expression. Make sure you've properly escaped all of the characters in the expression that need it. >3) You're confusing the path and test parameters to find, try this: find /home -regex [a-z]*/Maildir/\.Trash/cur -mtime +30 > >tickticker wrote: > > >>Howdy, >> >>I'm trying to delete some old files in several directorys using find, but I want >>to schedule the job nightly. Issue is, i can run it from the directory like so: >> >>find [a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; >> >>to delete all my different accounts old mail, but the cron job would need the >>whole path i'm assuming... But when I run >> >>find /home/[a-z]*/Maildir/.Trash/cur -mtime +30 >> >>it just sits there, i'm assuming it's my [a-z]* sitting there in the middle of >>things. Being regex ignorant, and not finding anything helpful on the web, is >>there some way to do this? backticks or escapes or something? >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Tickticker >> >> >>-- >>Transforming Intelligent Construct Keen on Thorough Infiltration, Ceaseless >>Killing and Efficient Repair >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>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 >> >> >--------------------------------------------------- >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 > > > -- Transforming Intelligent Construct Keen on Thorough Infiltration, Ceaseless Killing and Efficient Repair