> > You may want to speak to your sys-admin and see if this would be a
> > viable option. Good luck.
>
> Already tried, and he's not interested, but I did find out what script
> he's using...
>
> Q> #!/bin/sh
> Q> XYZZY="`find / -name core`"
> Q> for LOOP in `find $XYZZY | sort -ru` ; do
> Q> rm -fr $LOOP
> Q> done
>
> Apparently, the version I use (and show above) is "too simple to do
> the job"...and the version he uses was written for him by his son,
> who's doing Comp Sci on Solaris as school - aged 14 !!!
Ugh. *Why* would he want to *sort* the listing before deleting the files?
This person doesn't sound like he's a very competent sysadmin. I would
recommend speaking to whomever was responsible for hiring him...
-Scott
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