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06-23-2015

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I haven't tested it either, but the basic principles used by RavinderSingh13 look sound. But the logic is slightly off. If you are trying to exclude files with names ending in .txt and exclude files with names ending in .csv you want an AND of the ! -name clauses; not an OR. And, with all ANDs, the parentheses aren't needed. And, the -name primaries require a single argument, so an argument containing an asterisk has to be quoted. And, it will be much more efficient to pass ls multiple operands rather than invoking ls for each selected file individually. And, finally, note that the sample lookup file uses both commas and a semicolon as field separators (although the semicolon on the 1st line might be a typo). I think the commands you need are more like:

Code:

find "/Folder1"/* -prune -type f ! -name "*.txt" ! -name "*.csv" -mtime +30 -exec ls -ltr {} +
find "/Folder2"/* -prune -type f ! -name "*.sh" ! -name "*.ksh" ! -name "*.txt" -mtime +60 -exec ls -ltr {} +
find "/folder3"/* -prune -type f ! -name "*.param" -mtime +90 -exec ls -ltr {} +

So, try:

Code:

awk -F'[,;]' '
{	printf("find \"%s\"/* -prune -type f ", $1)
	for(i = 3; i <= NF; i++)
		printf("! -name \"*%s\" ", $i)
	printf("-mtime +%s -exec ls -ltr {} +\n", $2}
}' Input_file

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shar

SHAR(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   SHAR(1)

NAME

     shar -- create a shell archive of files

SYNOPSIS

     shar file ...

DESCRIPTION

     The shar command writes a sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line op-
     erands.  Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).

     The shar command is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).

EXAMPLES

     To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:

	   cd ls
	   shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick

     To recreate the program directory:

	   mkdir ls
	   cd ls
	   ...
	   <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
	   ...
	   sh archive

SEE ALSO

     compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)

HISTORY

     The shar command appeared in 4.4BSD.

BUGS

     The shar command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.  The shar command cannot handle files
     without a newline ('
') as the last character.

     It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files.  It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
     through sh(1).  Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:

	   egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file

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