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Old 03-09-2007
Archiving and moving the files
hi all i have a requirement where in i have to zip all the files with "*.bkp" after 14 days and move the zip files to Archive directory ....
i am able to achieve the first functionality but not able to achive the second one ...here is my code

find ${LOG_DIR} -name "*.bkp" -mtime +14 | xargs -i gzip {}
mv ${LOG_DIR}/"*.bkp.gz" ${ARCHIVE_DIR}


when i run this i am gettin error
mv: cannot access /home/user/log/*.bkp
Last edited by nvuradi; 03-09-2007 at 09:00 AM..
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Old 03-09-2007
Hi,

After zip, the .bkp files will be .bkp.gz..isn't it? So you should be moving the .bkp.gz files..?

But the error that you are getting looks like a file permission problem..
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