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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Find: missing argument to `-mtime' Post 303042765 by wtolentino on Monday 6th of January 2020 10:35:58 AM
Old 01-06-2020
Find: missing argument to `-mtime'
this find command works when using manually on the command line
Code:
--
$ ls -latr file*.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 75 Jan  4 05:00 file_2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 75 Jan  4 05:00 file_1.log
$
$ find . ! -name -prune -type f -name "file*.log" -daystart -mtime 2
./file_1.log
./file_2.log
$


however when using it on a on bash shell script as
Code:
...
for i in `find . ! -name . -prune -type f -name "$vfile" -daystart -mtime +$pday`
...

where the variable $vfile is the first parameter for the file to search and $pday is the second parameter days how old is the file

it is getting the error
Code:
$ sh rmAgingFile.sh file*.log 2
current directory .
find: missing argument to `-mtime'
no aging files found that are file_2.log days old

please help thank you.

Linux version: 2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64
 

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