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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to create zip/gz/tar files for if the files are older than particular days in UNIX or Linux? Post 302858321 by Mallikgm on Monday 30th of September 2013 05:01:03 AM
Old 09-30-2013
Thanks a lot for your reply.

I put below lines (marked with blue color) in a script file "only_zip.sh" and trying to execute it, but giving the error
Code:
find /tmp/mallik3/ -type f -size +0 ! -name '*.gz' -mtime +180 |
while read f
do
  cp -p "$f" "$f".0 &&
  gzip "$f".0
done

Above script gives below error:
Code:
: command not found:
only_zip.sh: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
only_zip.sh: line 6: `done'

____________________
And I put extra commands in the another file "log_script_n.sh
" (marked with blue color) and trying to execute
Code:
#Deletes the files older than 365 days
find /tmp/mallik3/ -mtime +2200 -exec rm -f {} \;
#Make the zip/gz/compress the files, if those are older than 6 months
#another way of doing
find /tmp/mallik3/ -type f -size +0 ! -name '*.gz' -mtime +180 |
while read f
do
  cp -p "$f" "$f".0 &&
  gzip "$f".0
done
#Delete the file older than 6 months (which are alredy zipped).
find /tmp/mallik3/ -mtime +180 -exec rm -f {} \;

gives below error:
Code:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
: command not foundne 9:
log_script_n.sh: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file
-bash-3.2$

Could you please help in this regard.
Last edited by Franklin52; 09-30-2013 at 07:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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