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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exit always returns 0 Post 303021504 by drew77 on Saturday 11th of August 2018 10:04:28 AM
Old 08-11-2018
Exit always returns 0

This returns 0 even when it does not delete any files.

Is it because -print returns 0?

Code:
RETVAL=$?
Docs_Backups=/media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/Documents_Backups/
Scripts_Backups=/media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/Script_Backups/

# create some old files
#touch -d 20120101 /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/Script_Backups/test1
#touch -d 20120101 /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/Script_Backups/test2
#touch -d 20120101 /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/Script_Backups/test3
echo "Files older than 3 days."
find $Docs_Backups -mindepth 1 -mtime +3 -print -delete 
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo Success
[ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && echo Failure
find $Scripts_Backups -mindepth 1 -mtime +3 -print -delete 
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo Success
[ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && echo Failure
echo "Files older than 3 days have been deleted."

 

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