Hi,

I wrote a smiple ksh function

send_notification() {
...
}

and want to execute it on each file, matched by the find command.

I tried:

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;

but it doesn't work. What should I do? I work in ksh on Hp-Ux.

Regards,
Pit

I think its not possible to execute function.Instead make a shell script send_not.sh and call that script in find command

send_not.sh
############
send_notification() {
...
}
send_notification $1
############

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec /dir1/dir2/send_not.sh {} \;

Thank you for reply.

I know that I can place that function in a separate file. On that way it has been working for a long time but I was asked to place everything in one shell script.

Pit

for file in $( find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -print )
do
     send_notification $file
done

Thank you again for reply.

The last solution seems to be almost ok, but there is another problem. It executes the command

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -print

and when finishes it goes inside for loop. Because the find command searches through very large storage system it is required that the send_notification function is executed for each found item at the time it's found.

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;

But, as I stated in the first post, the above command doesn't work!