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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting CHECK SCRIPT SYNTAX Post 302703159 by Corona688 on Wednesday 19th of September 2012 11:30:17 AM

09-19-2012

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Putting the too many arguments into find hasn't stopped them from being too many arguments. You need to not give them too many arguments.

Let find handle the pattern matching. That way, you only give it one argument.

You can give find more than one folder, too, and handle it all at once.

Code:

PATH_ROOT="/ot/bean/923/domains/scape"

find    "$PATH_ROOT/servers/scape-admin/logs/"             \
        "$PATH_ROOT/servers/scape-services-ru/logs/"       \
        "$PATH_ROOT/servers/scape-services/logs/"          \
        "$PATH_ROOT/servers/scape-gui/logs/"               \
        "$PATH_ROOT/servers/scape-gui-ru/logs/"            \
        -name '*.log*' -mtime +7 -exec echo rm '{}' '+'

-name can match files like you were doing inside the shell, without having to match inside the shell, avoiding the 'too many arguments' problem. Putting it in single quotes prevents the shell from trying to expand it too soon.

Using '+' instead of ';' will cause it to put as many files as it can into each rm call instead of running rm 10,000 individual times for 10,000 individual files, which will make it more efficient.

Remove the echo once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.

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grablogs.conf

grablogs.conf(4)						   File Formats 						  grablogs.conf(4)

NAME

       grablogs.conf - grablogs configuration for libgrablogs.so of the plugins of
	gnome-system-log file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  libgrablogs.so  is	a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it colloct the log files from the system as many as possible. grablogs.conf is a
       configuration file that contains a set of lines mixed with sh(1) syntax codes and individual
	log files. libgrablogs.so will read the file try to get a log files list for
	gnome-system-log(1). Users can copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to overwrite the system default one.

       The grablogs.conf file contains the following configuration categories:

	      [configs]
		     Each line under this category is interpreted as a config file of System. The plugin will open the config file and try to find
		     all system paths of the logs.

	      [commands]
		     Each line under this category is interpreted as a shell command and will be execute through a pipe. And each line of the out-
		     put of the command will be interpreted as a log path.

	      [logs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a log path.

FILES

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
	      The system default configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so

       $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p`/grablogs.conf
	      The user specific configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so

EMAMPLE

       [configs]
       /etc/syslog.conf
       [commands]
       for i in `svcs -aH -o FMRI | grep -v lrc `; do svcprop -p restarter/logfile $i  2>/dev/null  ||	svcprop  -q  -p  restarter/alt_logfile	$i
       2>/dev/null ; done
       [logs]
       /var/log/messages
       /var/log/secure
       /var/log/maillog
       /var/log/cron
       /var/log/Xorg.0.log
       /var/log/XFree86.0.log
       /var/log/auth.log
       /var/log/cups/error_log

SEE ALSO

       gnome-system-log(1), pipelog.conf(1)

gnome-utils 2.16.0						    13 Oct 2006 						  grablogs.conf(4)