[ILUG] cron strangeness

[Brian Foster]

 is find(1) really the correct tool to use here?
 do you _really_ want to blow up all *.incoming/
 dirs in the /tmp hierarchy; e.g.:

   /tmp/a/directiory/in/tmp/containing/an.incoming/...

 or only in /tmp itself; e.g.:

   /tmp/blowupthis.incoming/...
   /tmp/but/do/not/blow/up/this.incoming/...

 if the later, simpy use a wildcard (shell globbing):

   /tmp/*.incoming/

 (note the trailing slash (/) to force it to only
 match directories); e.g. (not tested!):

   touch -d '20 hours ago' /tmp/$$
   for d in /tmp/*.incoming/; do
      [ "$d" -nt /tmp/$$ ] || rm -rf -- "$d"
   done
   rm -f /tmp/$$

cheers!
	-blf-

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