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 <http://cyborg.namedecoder.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------- 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