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Cron Job - command to delete all .flv files every day

I have this command which I run every day via cron:

find /home/get/public_html/videos -daystart -maxdepth 0 
-mtime +1 -type f -name "*.flv" |xargs rm -f

The problem is that it doesn't delete the .flv files in a directory that is 1 or more days old.

How can I fix the above command?

EDIT: Paul - the command "ls -l / home / get / public_html / videos" results in 2000+ files, but here are 2 of them that should be removed:

-rw-r--r--  1 get get   3501188 Jan  4 15:24 f486cf0a2b6bb40e4c50c991785084131231104229.flv
-rw-r--r--  1 get get  10657314 Jan  4 17:51 f5f1490ddaa11a663686f9d06fb37d981231112941.flv
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Better to use -print0 for lookups and -0 in xargs if one file has an unusual name.

Also, you want to use -maxdepth 1 to find something in the specified directory.



-maxdepth 0 means it will only be found in the directories listed on the command line, it will not check the contents of those directories.

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Do you mean if you have a directory /home/get/public_html/videos/foo

it doesn't delete files in them? This would be because you have a set of arguments -maxdepth 0

that prevents descending find

into subdirectories.



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