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04-18-2012

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Hi neutronscott, Thank you very much for your response. I copied your script like this

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#set -xv
>size
>files_deletion
STAT=/prod/STAT/seqfiles
while read name ret_period; do
days=`echo "30.5 * ${ret_period}" | bc`
old=`find "$STAT" -name "$name" -mtime +"$days" -print`
if [ -n "$old" ]; then
echo "$old $ret_period" >> files_deletion
done < "/test/mkamal/ret/rulesx.txt"

I tried to execute it and I got this message on the screen
ksh: ./search1: cannot execute
Then on the command line, I entered the script line by line, after entering the last line, I got this error message

ksh: syntax error: `done' unexpected

Any thoughts what I did wrong?

Quote:

Originally Posted by neutronscott

Was hoping to be able to use GNU date .. I see a stray backtick in 47's code at the end of the find command, otherwise it should produce results. Are you certain they are incorrect, what do you use to verify? Also the cat there is useless use of cat.

You're creating a file size which would end up being identical to the input file ... was it meant to include size information as well?

Code:

stat=/prod/STAT/seqfiles
while read name ret_period; do
    days=`echo "30.5 * ${ret_period}" | bc`
    old=`find "$stat" -name "$name" -mtime +"$days" -print`
    if [ -n "$old" ]; then
        echo "$old $ret_period" >> files_deletion
    fi
done < "/test/mkamal/ret/rulesx.txt"

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