11-22-2012
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Originally Posted by
dollypee
Hi,
I have a script that is scheduled with cron and runs every night. The cron part looks like this:
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:
#----------------------------------------------------
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
Your comments in the code say that this is a shell function, but you don't show that it actually is a function. If it is a function, we need to see how /usr/local/bin/BACKUP calls delete_old_backup to diagnose your problem.
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