Find with rm command gives strange results

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I want to remove any files that are older than 2 days from a directory. It deletes those files. Then it comes back with a message it is a directory. What am I doing wrong here?

+ find /mydir -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
rm: /mydir is a directory
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man rm
This is the default behaviour of rm..

You can add -type f to the find command so that it only finds files..

3

Do you tmpwatch available? That can help you tidy files away too.

You don't tell us your OS variant, so it may not be installed.

I hope that this helps,
Robin