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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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color.4th

COLOR.4TH(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      COLOR.4TH(8)

NAME

     color.4th -- FreeBSD color-detection boot module

DESCRIPTION

     The file that goes by the name of color.4th is a set of commands designed to simplify color logic.  The commands of color.4th by themselves
     are not enough for most uses.  Please refer to the examples below for the most common situations, and to loader(8) for additional commands.

     Before using any of the commands provided in color.4th, it must be included through the command:

	   include color.4th

     This line is present in /boot/loader.4th file, so it is not needed (and should not be re-issued) in a normal setup.

     The commands provided by it are:

	   loader_color?	  Returns FALSE if the loader_color environment variable is set to ``NO'' (case-insensitive) or ``0''.	Otherwise
				  returns TRUE (unless booting serial).

     The environment variables that effect its behavior are:

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FILES

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     /boot/color.4th   color.4th itself.
     /boot/loader.rc   loader(8) bootstrapping script.

EXAMPLES

     Standard i386 /boot/loader.rc:

     Use color where applicable:

	   loader_color="YES"

SEE ALSO

     loader.conf(5), loader(8), loader.4th(8)

HISTORY

     The color.4th set of commands first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0.

AUTHORS

     The color.4th set of commands was written by Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>.

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