Shell Programming and Scripting

im doing a script to compress files in ${CompressPath} withe files older than ${FileAge}. The line below actually works, but I only need to compress files that are in ${CompressPath}. This line compresses all files that it can find under the ${CompressPath} and all its sub dirs. is there a way to force this NOT to go down its directory tree?

compress `find ${CompressPath} -type f -mtime +${FileAge} | grep -v .Z | grep -v .gz


thanks!

tads98,

Quoting man find,

If no paths are given, the current directory is used.

Hence, your command should be

Code:

compress `find -type f -mtime +${FileAge} | grep -v .Z | grep -v .gz`

Havent tested it yet. But I think it should work.

Let us know.

Vino

I got this error: Usage: find path-list [predicate-list]
anyways, I really really appreciate your help.

here's my workaround.

compress `find $CompressPath} -mountstop -type f -mtime +${FileAge} | grep -v .Z | grep -v .gz`

I do not know why the in-consistency between the man pages and the actual command. I might be missing something.

Vino

You may try as,

for file `ls ${CompressPath}|grep -Ev '.Z|.gz'`;
do
find ${CompressPath} -name $file -mtime +${FileAge} > /tmp/testfile
done

compress `cat /tmp/testfile`

Try it. I did not check

find "${CompressPath}/." \( ! -name . -a ! -name '*.Z' -a ! -name '*.gz' \) -prune -type f -mountstop -mtime +${FileAge}

I stand corrected. -mountstop does not prevent the find command to drill down to the current dir.