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# 8  
Old 11-24-2010
Yes, as i said, the -i option may depends on your OS : you are on AIX, it seems you do
not have the same option than me for the xargs command.

so you need to do man xargs and see which option is suitable

(maybe it is in uppercape : -I ?)
# 9  
Old 11-24-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetnsourabh
The code you have provided is throwing following error
Code:
 find . -name "*${var1}*" -i cp {} ./Delete/ \;

That's not the code that ctsgnb posted! The -i is an option to xargs - which mysteriously disappeared - not to find.
# 10  
Old 11-24-2010
Code:
find . -name "*${var1}*" | xargs -I cp {} ./Delete/

I have tried the above code inependently on the shell and it is throwing following error:

xargs: {}: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
# 11  
Old 11-24-2010
Hi.

-I requires a replacement string ({} by convention), and the replacement string must be used in the command:

Code:
find . -name "*${var1}*" | xargs -I{} cp {} ./Delete/

# 12  
Old 11-24-2010
hi

I have made the correction and this command works fine
But when i keep it inside my shell script it is throwing following error

-----
Code:
20101124
new.sh[5]: ^M:  not found.
new.sh[6]: ^M:  not found.
new.sh[7]: ^M:  not found.
new.sh[8]: ^M:  not found.

-----

the script is

Code:
#!/bin/sh
var1=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
echo $var1
find . -name "*${var1}*" | xargs -I{} cp {} ./Delete/

Last edited by Franklin52; 11-24-2010 at 07:47 AM.. Reason: please use code tags
# 13  
Old 11-24-2010
Do this :
Code:
dos2unix new.sh new.sh

and give another try to run the script
# 14  
Old 11-24-2010
Getting error:

dos2unix: not found.
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