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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting deleting files inside shell script - ( using find) Post 302320179 by Jayaram.Nambura on Wednesday 27th of May 2009 09:10:42 AM
Old 05-27-2009
Thanks for your help.

I have checked the shell script and it is fine.

I am having a shell script name test.sh
and it contains only one line which is
find /apps/qualdb/gpcn/scripts/cab_outbound/archive -name 'z*' -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;

and when i am running using ksh test.sh it is showing exception as find: missing argument to `-exec'


the same thing when i am running in command prompt it is working fine.



Is there is any way to attach the file in this forum so that i can attcah the screen shot of whet i am trying.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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