06-16-2017
Welcome
Steven_2975,
I have a few observations:-
- I don't know what command DB_DATA does. Is that important?
- I don't see why you count the items to test if you need to do the work. If the second find command does not select anything, the -exec section does not run.
- If the depth of directory/filename gets very long, your commands may fail. It might be better to change to $DB_DATA_PATH, check that you have done so and then run find with a directory of .
- I'm not sure you need to have single quotes around the '{}' or ';'
- When you say it's 'not working', in what way is it not? Do you have any output/errors?
- For a dummy run, use .... -exec echo gzip ...... so you make sure you don't break anything whilst working on it.
- In your first find, you have options -maxdepth 1 -mtime -1 set when you are counting, but not when you execute the second find. Which is the correct configuration?
I'm sure we can help you work this through to achieve what you want.
Kind regards,
Robin
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