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[McIDAS #XRR-599672]: Configuring scouring of McIDAS data
- To: zehel@xxxxxxx
- Subject: [McIDAS #XRR-599672]: Configuring scouring of McIDAS data
- From: "Unidata McIDAS Support" <support-mcidas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:28:58 -0600
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Hi Samuel,
re:
> I didn't realize scour uses something like 'find' to delete files.
> I'll definitely start using scour more.
'find' is actually a pretty inefficient utility.
> Is there much difference between scour, and scourBYday? If there isn't,
> I probably should cleanup ldm's crontab some day, and move them over to
> the scour.conf file.
I wrote scourBYday because or the inefficiencies of 'find' in 'scour'.
Also, I don't think that 'scour' will remove directories in which all
files have been scoured. scourBYday, on the other hand will.
Cheers,
Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XRR-599672
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
