Oh,,,, Peter L. Berghold wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> #!/bin/sh >> find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \; >> >> > If I dissect what you are putting together here what I see is you are > asking find to locate all normal files whose **accessed time** is > greater than 30 days. > > Is it possible than they have all been accessed within the last 30 days? I did a man find, and thunked back a few hours. Ooops. I had looked at that directory with Nautilus. Even though only some of the files showed in the viewing window, they were all touched. So to start I did a -mtime +30 and took the directory down to ~1700 files. Now I will set up a cron with the -atime +30 and be good, and not look into the directory with Nautilus. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list