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Chaining together exec within find

I need to do the following with a find command on my AIX box

Find all files that are -type f

Then do the following steps:-
  • Take a listing of them, and write them to a log in /directory/backup/log
  • Tar them up in /directory/backup/tar
  • and remove the files.

Here is what I have so far:

Code:
find /directory/files -type f -exec ls -latr >> /directory/backup/log/2.log \; -exec tar -cvf * /directory/backup/tar/testtar.tar * \; -exec rm -f {} \;

When I have three files-

Code:
 
 Testfile1.text
 Testfile2.text
 Testfile3.text

It does the following-

Removes the first file
Tars up the second two
Writes the second two to a log in the directory the find statement is being executed in

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by rbatte1; 06-19-2017 at 11:42 AM.. Reason: Changed fir st CODE tags to ICODE tags for inline-code and added a bullet list.
 
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