Why doesn't this bash line delete all /tmp/ files over 24 hours old?

[tarahmarie]

sudo find /tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} \;

And second, why can't I see the "New Thread" orange button in the "Development and Programming" subforum? Is it limited now?

[Cheesemill]

Why would you want to delete anything in /tmp ?

/tmp gets deleted every time you boot your machine.

[tarahmarie]

tmp is filling rapidly, and I don't reboot my machine but about once a week. I have a 10GB home partition, and tmp gets up to 3GB pretty quickly given my activity; I have started having issues with no space on /home. So, I want to run a cleaner script, and this is one of the lines.

And I still don't know why I can't post this in Development and Programming; anyone know?

[PaulW2U]

And I still don't know why I can't post this in Development and Programming; anyone know?

Because that forum is Read Only?

You should be able to post in most of the Development and Programming sub-forums though.

[Cheesemill]

And I still don't know why I can't post this in Development and Programming; anyone know?

Development and Programming is a top-level category, you have to click on one of the sub-forums to choose which one to post into.

[steeldriver]

is there an error message? if there are A LOT of files, you may be overflowing the argument list - in which case try xargs

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...35&postcount=4

[bab1]

sudo find /tmp -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} \;

And second, why can't I see the "New Thread" orange button in the "Development and Programming" subforum? Is it limited now?

I agree with the others, you should find the source of the problem. i believe the reason why this is not working probably because the exec rm is not being executed with elevated permissions. You could try this rather scary incantation

sudo find /tmp -mtime +1 -exec sudo rm -f {} \;