Unix Help

helimachoptor

Its been a logn time since I used Unix and even then it was not that much


I am trying to access this file 'find' in directory /usr/bin/find
but when i do cd find in /usr/bin/ I get an error saying 'find' is not a directory.

How can i access this file?

Blowfish

Just type 'find'

helimachoptor

find: insufficient number of arguments
find: path-list predicate-list



I get this error blowfish?

Dero

What exactly are you trying to do? I presume you're trying to find some file on your system, but some more detail might make it easier to get help.

Blowfish

helimachoptor wrote: »

find: insufficient number of arguments
find: path-list predicate-list



I get this error blowfish?

Find is a command used for locating files, it's not particularly useful unless you give it something to search for

Have a look here for an intro on how to use it.

helimachoptor

sorry blowfish her eis the path i am trying to get to...
/usr/bin/find /transfer/ so find is just a step along it

Blowfish

helimachoptor wrote: »

sorry blowfish her eis the path i am trying to get to...
/usr/bin/find /transfer/ so find is just a step along it

Ah, well with that, there is a space between the '/usr/bin/find' bit and the '/transfer/' bit. Basically what that means is that you are trying to run the 'find' command (to search for file(s)) on the '/transfer/' folder (the folder you are looking for the file(s) in).

helimachoptor

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah, well with that, there is a space between the '/usr/bin/find' bit and the '/transfer/' bit. Basically what that means is that you are trying to run the 'find' command (to search for file(s)) on the '/transfer/' folder (the folder you are looking for the file(s) in).

I can see the space that is just a typo in the email i got and i copied from there,

I am typing in usr/bin/find/transfer

Or should i have the space in there?

Snowbat

While 'find' is an executable binary file, like everything else in /bin and /usr/bin it is more useful to think of it as a command:
eg. find -name *.mp3

http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/find.php
http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_find.htm

Blowfish

helimachoptor wrote: »

I can see the space that is just a typo in the email i got and i copied from there,

I am typing in usr/bin/find/transfer

Or should i have the space in there?

Keep the space in there, it's not a typo.

Snowbat

Are you looking for a for a file or directory called 'transfer' somewhere in your file system?

cd /
find -name transfer

helimachoptor

No transfer is another directory with 1 file in it that i need to run a a crontab command on, I've done what i am supposed to but now its asking me do i want to remove the directory which I dont

Here is the full command i suppose this would have been a better place to start..

/usr/bin/find /transfer/procesados/ -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

Basically I want to delete the content of the directory every 60 days


But not the actual directory

Dero

Try

/usr/bin/find /transfer/procesados/ -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

helimachoptor

Dero wrote: »

Try

/usr/bin/find /transfer/procesados/ -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

Dero cheers that worked, I now will not have to go near unix for a longtime hopefully!
Thanks to the rest of you guys too.