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Old 07-24-2009
cygwin and remote find command problem
Sir,
I want to get all the files in directory on a remote server which are dated newer than a specified file. I have ssh running and the command I am using is :
for file_name in `ssh userid@IP find "/cygdrive/d/oracle/oradata/db/archive" -newer "1_44.DBF" -name '*.DBF' -type f -print | xargs -r ls -tr`
I am getting the error:
ls: cannot access /cygdrive/d/oracle/oradata/db/archive/1_99.DBF: No such file or directory

In the past I have used a similar statement many times on a local server under many flavours of UNIX and Linux without any problem.


Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 07-26-2009
When using SSH to run a command on a remote machine you need to group the command and its parameters together otherwise on the command is run on the remote machine, I would therefore try:
Code:
for file_name in `ssh userid@IP "find /cygdrive/d/oracle/oradata/db/archive -newer 1_44.DBF -name '*.DBF'  -type f -print | xargs -r ls -tr"`

HTH
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Old 07-27-2009
Thank you with one very minor change thats done the trick:
for file_name in `ssh administrator@192.170.100.241 "find /cygdrive/d/oracle/oradata/db/archive -newer /cygdrive/d/oracle/oradata/db/archive/1_44.DBF -name '*.DBF' -type f -print | xargs -r ls -tr"`
I have also been playing with -exec command over the weekend, and found a solution but its not very elegant.

Thanks once again..............
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