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# 15  
Old 09-27-2006
Quote:
i am trying to compress all files older than ten days old..
Why would you use the 'ls' command to determine whether or not to compress a file? I think that it would be a lot easier and a better design to use 'find' instead.

If I create a file older than 10 days ago... .
Code:
$ touch -t 200609160000.00 hello
$ ll hello
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 0 Sep 16 00:00 hello
$ find . -mtime +10 -exec ls -ld {} \;
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 211 Mar  7  2006 ./x.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 0 Sep 16 00:00 ./hello
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 1693 Aug 24 12:56 ./client.c

Now if I change the timestamp on the same file to 9 days ago... .
Code:
$ touch -t 200609180000.00 hello
$ find . -mtime +10 -exec ls -ld {} \;
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 211 Mar  7  2006 ./x.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 kshuser kshuser 1693 Aug 24 12:56 ./client.c

So you could just use the 'find' command above, and replace the "ls -ld" with your compress command. The { } characters represent the filename.
# 16  
Old 09-27-2006
i'm sorry to say that it's too advanced for me to follow. i think it's too much to ask at this point for me to learn a bunch of new stuff and start over. just let me get it my way this time,and then i will start to learn more...

can you help so the file identifier is employed correctly later on in the script, so it doesn't try to "mv -rwx..." ? thanks :-)


edit: okay, since all else is failing, i will try to climb the learning curve another inch or two. :-)
Last edited by tefflox; 09-28-2006 at 12:04 AM..
# 17  
Old 09-28-2006
no, i am unable to figure your suggestion. my script is almost working, be it ugly, but it has put some files into thte compressed.tar folder, which means i am almost home. i still need help compressing the directory "compressed.tar"
# 18  
Old 09-28-2006
thanks, to all who helped. i feel that i've gotten over a little hump, dug myself in to get over a couple more. thanks again. comp sci forums are great!
# 19  
Old 09-28-2006
Alternatively try this command and it is working perfectly fine.

Code:
find . -mtime +10 -exec tar -cvf test.tar {} \;
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