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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Find: missing argument to `-mtime' Post 303042767 by rbatte1 on Monday 6th of January 2020 10:49:08 AM
Old 01-06-2020
This is telling you that the value for pday is not set or not an integer, so your command as a whole becomes invalid. Could you sh -xv rmAgingFile.sh file*.log 2 and review the output to see what is actually being run? Do you actually assign the argument 2 to that variable pday ? I presume it would need something like pday="${2}" early in your code to do that.

It might also be that the shell where you are running the command has expanded file*.log to each file it found, so that might mess up the input. You could try by wrapping it in double quotes, so sh -xv rmAgingFile.sh "file*.log" 2 might be better. Obviously drop the -xv if this does the trick.



If this is still failing, could you paste the output/errors showing the expanded find command as it is trying to run?




Kind regards,
Robin
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