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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching File in Directory and all Subdirectory and Delete Post 302934756 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 10:17:05 AM
Old 02-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by John William
Thanks Don. I will run it tomorrow and let you know.

---------- Post updated 02-10-15 at 10:44 AM ---------- Previous update was 02-09-15 at 09:16 PM ----------

This is what I got

Getting list of parameters.
File Name is: /home/rkath/o34620760.out

Getting list of files to purge from /xxtd/u20/xx_payments:
Code:
for pfile in "$Filename"
do	ls -l "$pfile" | (
		read x x user group x
		find /xxtd/u20/xx_payments -user "$user" -group "$group" -type f \
			-exec cmp -s "$pfile" {} \; \
			-exec echo rm {} +
		echo rm "$pfile"
	)
done

Code:
+ ls -l /home/rkath/o34620760.out
+ read x x user group x
+ find /xxtd/u20/xx_payments -user rkath -group staff -type f -exec cmp -s /home/rkath/o34620760.out {} ; -exec echo rm {} +
Usage: cmp [-l | -s] File1 File2
+ echo rm /home/rkath/o34620760.out
rm /home/rkath/o34620760.out
return 0
+ return 0

There is a HUGE difference between the code you have here and what I suggested in post #10 in this thread:
Code:
for pfile in "$@"

Since Filename is an undefined variable in this script, $Filename expands to an empty string while "$@" expands to a list of your command-line arguments. Please try it the way I suggested in the first place.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

chroot

CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME

     chroot -- change root directory

SYNOPSIS

     chroot [-u -user] [-g -group] [-G -group,group,...] newroot [command]

DESCRIPTION

     The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of
     your shell.

     If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken
     place.  See setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3) and getpwnam(3).

     Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id.

ENVIRONMENT

     The following environment variable is referenced by chroot:

     SHELL  If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec.  If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is
	    used.

SEE ALSO

     chdir(2), chroot(2), environ(7)

HISTORY

     The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

     chroot should never be installed setuid root, as it would then be possible to exploit the program to gain root privileges.

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