A puzzle! Crontab and mkdir and files, oh my!

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 24/4/25 22:04, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 at 12:51, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     So it should read
> 
>     0 1 * * * username find /home/ubuntu/data -type d -name '*_temp*' -exec rm -r {} >> /home/ubuntu/data/log/adfd_cleanup.log 2>&1
> 
> 
> I don't use cron but if I did, I would seriously consider putting the lengthy find command into a shell script and call the shell script from cron.

Absolutely.

> Or am I missing something here?

You are only missing the entertainment value of this thread.

> TIA,
> 
> 
> Ian

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