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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting 'unexpected token' error using FIND in script to delete old files Post 302418285 by rpalmer68 on Monday 3rd of May 2010 05:49:19 PM
Old 05-03-2010
'unexpected token' error using FIND in script to delete old files
Hi,

I am compete linux noob, but have managed to setup my Thecus N5500 to rsync to my N5200Pro to do automatic backups each night.

The rsync script also moves any files deleted from the N5500 (and previously backed up to the N5200) to a _deleted folder on the N5200 so I can keep them for 30 days before removing them.

This is where I have run into a problem....

I have the following script that I run on the N5200;
Code:
#!/bin/bash
## This script will delete files older than 30 days from the deleted backups
## generated by nas_backup.sh on NAS1
find /raid0/data/nas_backup/media_deleted/* -mtime +30 -exec rm -f '{}' \;

The problem is I'm getting errors like these when I run the script;
Quote:
root@127.0.0.1:/raid0/data/nsync# sh delete30days.sh
rm: /raid0/data/nas_backup/media_deleted/Library: is a directory
rm: /raid0/data/nas_backup/media_deleted/Library/Master/Cache: is a directory
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 0: `rm -f /raid0/data/nas_backup/media_deleted/Library/Master/Cache/File List Sort/Cache (62).dat'

I don't know if it's any help, but I did have to enclose the {} in quotes '{}' otherwise I got issues with spaces in the directory names as well, which there seems to be great debate in other threads if this is required of not.


I'm not sure what release/version on linux is on the thecus N5200 but I did get this from the box;
Quote:
root@127.0.0.1:/raid0/data/nsync# uname -r
2.6.23N5200
root@127.0.0.1:/raid0/data/nsync# uname -a
Linux nasbackup 2.6.23N5200 #13 Thu May 14 12:47:37 CST 2009 i686 unknown
root@:~# bash -version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
if it's any help.



Can anybody suggest how to fix this please?

Thanks
Richard
 

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