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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with passing argument Post 302734669 by dollypee on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 01:49:31 PM
Old 11-22-2012
Help with passing argument

Hi,

I have a script that is scheduled with cron and runs every night. The cron part looks like this:

Code:
00 20 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/local/bin/BACKUP TBTARM HOT DELETE

My issue is with the 3rd parameter. Somewhere in the script, i want to tell the script to delete some files if the 3rd parameter is DELETE and her is what i put together:

Code:
#----------------------------------------------------
function delete_old_backup
#----------------------------------------------------
{
if [[ $3 == DELETE ]]
then
    echo "WILL NOW LIST ALL BACKUP FILES IN RMAN BEFORE DELETING THEM"
    find ${RMAN_DIR} -name "RMAN_${USID}*"  -exec ls -al {} \; | tee -a $WRKLOG
    find ${RMAN_DIR} -name "RMAN_${USID}*"  -exec rm {} \;
else
   echo "this is nodelete"
fi
}

At first, i put a comment in front of the find ${RMAN_DIR} -name "RMAN_${USID}*" -exec rm {} \; part of the script but the script is not even listing the files at all and i had files in the directory. Can someone please help with what is wrong with this script

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags for code and data

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-22-2012 at 03:48 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal". --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4. Postscript points Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points. --gutter-width=gw Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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