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Hey Every one

I have a find statement which find the files and deletes them

find /web/local/orderlink/batchmanaged01/scripts/SMOappLogs/log -name 'orderlink.log.*' -type f -mtime +$10-exec rm -f {} \;

This statement if finds a file at the given location it will delete the files but if it doesn't find files at the given path on the server then throws error saying

find: /web/local/orderlink/batchmanaged01/scripts/SMOappLogs/log: No such file or directory

I want to route this error to log file rather than displaying in the place where I executed the script

my log file declaration is
DIRNAME=`dirname $0`
LOGFILE=$DIRNAME/auto_purge.log

I want it to route the error to log file auto_purge.log located in the same directory structure

Thanks for the answers
Pinky

Code:

find /web/local/orderlink/batchmanaged01/scripts/SMOappLogs/log -name 'orderlink.log.*' -type f -mtime +$10-exec rm -f {} \; 2>$LOGFILE

Hi Thanks for hte answer it worked
But the problrm is I am able to see the error in log file but I am also seeing
as std output at the place where I ran the script
I want to route the error to log file and should not display it at the place where I ran
can you plz help me to get this done

Thanks
Pinky

Not entirely sure what you mean - redirecting STDERR to the log should suffice:

Code:

$ find sdkasd -name "asdasd"
find: sdkasd: No such file or directory
$ find sdkasd -name "asdasd" 2>logfile
$ cat logfile
find: sdkasd: No such file or directory

Also; you have a typo in your find command - there should be a space between $10 and the -exec.

Cheers,
ZB

Thanks it worked You guys are very helpful.


Regards
Pinky