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Old 11-15-2011
cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

Hi,
I am trying to write an Archive script that should look for files older than x days, zip them and move the zip to the archive directory and delete the files that have been zipped. I am not sure how i can handle this error:
"cowardly refusing to create an empty archieve".
Just wanted to know if there is any workaround for this. I did look into one of the threads but didn't find the answer so posted it here!!
Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Here is the code that i have written:
--------------------------------------------------
Code:
#!/bin/sh

FILES=/abc/def
ARCH=/fff/ddd

cd $FILES
`find . -name "*.txt" -type f -mtime +10 | xargs tar -czvf filetar.tar.gz
`mv filetar.tar.gz $ARCH`
status_check=`echo $?`
if [ $status_check -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Error"
else
echo "Success"
`find . -name "*.txt" -type f -mtime +10 | xargs rm -rf {} \;
fi

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THANKS!!!!

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment How to use code tags

Last edited by Franklin52; 11-16-2011 at 03:44 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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ZIP_CLOSE(3)						     Library Functions Manual						      ZIP_CLOSE(3)

NAME
zip_close - close zip archive LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h> int zip_close(struct zip *archive); DESCRIPTION
The zip_close function closes archive and frees the memory allocated for it. If any files within were changed, those changes are written to disk first. If writing changes fails, zip_close fails and archive is left unchanged. If archive contains no files, the file is com- pletely removed (no empty archive is written). RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
zip_close will fail if: [ZIP_ER_EOF] Unexpected end-of-file found while reading from a file. [ZIP_ER_INTERNAL] The callback function of an added or replaced file returned an error but failed to report which. [ZIP_ER_INVAL] The path argument is NULL. [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] Required memory could not be allocated. [ZIP_ER_NOZIP] File is not a zip archive. [ZIP_ER_READ] A file read failed. [ZIP_ER_RENAME] A temporary file could not be renamed to its final name. [ZIP_ER_SEEK] A file seek failed. [ZIP_ER_TMPOPEN] A temporary file could not be created. [ZIP_ER_WRITE] A file write failed. [ZIP_ER_ZLIB] An error occurred while (de)compressing a stream with zlib(3). Additionally, any errors returned by the callback function for added or replaced files will be passed back. SEE ALSO
libzip(3), zip_error_get(3), zip_fdopen(3), zip_open(3), zip_strerror(3) AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> NiH February 15, 2009 ZIP_CLOSE(3)
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