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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with find ! -newer Post 93467 by Perderabo on Monday 19th of December 2005 02:51:19 PM
Old 12-19-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by dbfree

if find $FIC -type f ! -newer /tmp/ref_time.check.$$ >> /dev/null 2>&1
then
DATE=`date "+%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo "$DATE :Problem_on_test.log" >> $FICLOG
fi

The problem is that it finds the test.log file even if it isn't older than 10 mn.

Thanks
Not exactly. The problem is that "find" does not use the exit code to indicate that it found something. The exit code indicates whether or not find was successful in looking for something. A non-zero exit code means that an error occurred and a error message was sent to stderr. You will need to count the lines that "find" sends to stdout. ("find" used to work the way you think it should. But Posix "fixed" it.)

3600*0.17 is pretty gross. 60*10 is a bit better. Personally, I would just use 600.
 

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HAL-FIND-BY-CAPABILITY(1)				      General Commands Manual					 HAL-FIND-BY-CAPABILITY(1)

NAME
hal-find-by-capability - find device objects by capability matching SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability [options] DESCRIPTION
hal-get-capability finds device object in the HAL device database by looking at device capabilities. For more information about both the big picture and specific HAL properties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/share/doc/hal-doc/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --capability The name of the capability. --verbose Verbose output. --help Print out usage. --version Print the version. RETURN VALUE
If devices matching the given capability are found each UDI (Unique Device Identifier) is printed on stdout and the program exits with exit code 0. If no devices are found or an error occured, the program exits with a non-zero exit code. BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to subscribe. SEE ALSO
hald(8), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-property(1), hal-find-by-property(1), dbus-send(1) AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others. HAL-FIND-BY-CAPABILITY(1)
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