On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Erik Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > >> I need to remove old directories and files from >> /var/spool/Mailscanner/quarantine >> >> The following command gets rid of the files, but not the directories. >> What flag would I need to add to accomplish this? >> >> find /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine -mtime +10 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \; > > Remove the "-type f" Will the time stamp on a directory always be at least as new as the newest file in the tree within the directory? Apparently not -- I just checked it. I think you might mean that he should remove the "-type f" and also change the "-rf" to "-f". Look at this on your machine: ls -ld /home ls -ld /home/* See what I mean? Mike