Hi
I'm familiar with *find /xxxx -type f -atime +14 -exec rm -f {} \;*

however I'm trying to get it to work in an ftp session as follows:

#!/bin/sh
HOST='xxx'
USER='yyy'
PASSWD='zzz'

ftp -i -n -v $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
!find /xxxx -type f -atime +14 "-exec rm -f {}" ;
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

The ftp session stuff works fine, I've used it lots of times - the *find* part doesn't. Currently I get this: *invalid predicate '-exec rm -f {}'*

Can anyone tell if this is even possible? I've searched high and lo, tried a million variations, with no luck.

Any help gratefully rxed.

thanks

The exclamation mark tells the ftp client to interpret the remainder of the line as a command for the local machine, not the remote one. Luckily, your command has a syntax error or you could have trashed your machine.