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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command with exec doesnt work Post 302081571 by funtochat2002 on Wednesday 26th of July 2006 09:51:54 AM
Old 07-26-2006
find command with exec doesnt work
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
*****
#!/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find $log_home -type f -name $(print $jobid)'t.log' -ctime +$days_old -exec rm {} \; #remove outdated log files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print find $log_home -type f -name $(print $jobid)'t.log' -ctime +$days_old -exec rm {} \; #remove outdated log files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"
 

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