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

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 13:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 17:49 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> > If you think about what the original author is probably trying to
> > do with the WHOLE crontab entry, you may get further...

I think your suggestion is probably very close to what the original
author was trying to do.

> I'm not a find user, but likely "+" is a mistake.

It's a find option that appends all the found results to one run of the
-exec command. Saves on command invocations. Instead of

   rm -r this
   rm -r that
   rm -r theother

... you get

   rm -r this that theother

> I am not a crontab user and did not realize what David realized, that
> the user is missing.

It's a user crontab, so the user for all entries is the owner of the
crontab.

Regards, K.

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