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Old 03-26-2008
Data Perl Script Error with find command
Guys,

I need to find all the files ending with either dmp or dmp.Z. This command is giving me error.

@files =`find $path \(-name "*.dmp" -o -name "*.dmp.Z"\) -mtime +30`;

sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `(' is not expected.

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 03-26-2008
You need to double the backslashes in order for them to be passed through to the shell. Backticks in Perl undergo "double-quotish" substitution so one level of backslashes gets eaten by Perl, basically.
# 3  
Old 03-26-2008
Thanks era,

You mean like this.
@files =`find $path \\(-name "*.dmp" -o -name "*.dmp.Z"\\) -mtime +30`;

This is not working either.
# 4  
Old 03-26-2008
If you copy+pasted that verbatim then the error message "find: invalid predicate `(-name'" should be self-explanatory -- you need a space in between there. Also before the closing paren.
# 5  
Old 03-26-2008
MySQL
Smilie

cool. It is working now.

@files =`find $path \\( -name "*.dmp" -o -name "*.dmp.Z" \\) -mtime +30`;

Thanks a lot era.
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