Hi There,
I have a script which finds for log files and removes them if the file has changed in the last day.
The script runs fine without errors. The log file is still there. So, I decided to print the find command and run the command outside the script. Getting "Incomplete statement"
Can you give any ideas?
Thank you.
Unix fan.

Script
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#!/bin/ksh
log_home="/export/home/n74915/"
set -x
typeset -i10 days_old=${3:-1}
jobid="$1"
print $jobid
print "Cleaning up"
print $(print $jobid)'t.log'
find $log_home -type f -name $(print $jobid)'t.log' -ctime +$days_old -exec rm {} \; #remove outdated log files
print $?
print find $log_home -type f -name $(print $jobid)'t.log' -ctime +$days_old -exec rm {} \; #remove outdated log files
print $?
print "Cleaned up"

If I assign values to
log_home
jobid
days_old

this command gives me no errors:
Does jobid have embedded spaces?

Hi,
Thank you for getting back to me. Jobid doesnt have embedded spaces in it.
I tried the command upto -ctime +1 and didnt get any errors. Its only when I include -exec rm {}\; that I get incomplete statement error. the parameter is not getting passed to rm command ?
Appreciate your help..

Maybe parameter list is too long for exec, try to use xargs and see whats the output.

I dont know how to use that command. Could you give me some example?

I'm going out on a limb here, but I think you're missing a space
between the last close-curly and the backslash. "Incomplete statement"
is find telling you that it needs something to terminate the -exec clause.