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# 1  
Old 04-02-2007
How can I execute own ksh function in find -exec
Hi,

I wrote a smiple ksh function

send_notification() {
...
}

and want to execute it on each file, matched by the find command.

I tried:

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;

but it doesn't work. What should I do? I work in ksh on Hp-Ux.

Regards,
Pit
# 2  
Old 04-02-2007
I think its not possible to execute function.Instead make a shell script send_not.sh and call that script in find command

Code:
send_not.sh
############
send_notification() {
...
}
send_notification $1
############

Code:
find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec /dir1/dir2/send_not.sh {} \;

# 3  
Old 04-02-2007
Thank you for reply.

I know that I can place that function in a separate file. On that way it has been working for a long timeSmilie but I was asked to place everything in one shell script.

Pit
Last edited by piooooter; 04-02-2007 at 02:03 PM..
# 4  
Old 04-02-2007
Code:
for file in $( find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -print )
do
     send_notification $file
done

# 5  
Old 04-02-2007
Thank you again for reply.

The last solution seems to be almost ok, but there is another problem. It executes the command

find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -print

and when finishes it goes inside for loop. Because the find command searches through very large storage system it is required that the send_notification function is executed for each found item at the time it's found.
# 6  
Old 04-02-2007
Code:
find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;

# 7  
Old 04-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
Code:
find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;

But, as I stated in the first post, the above command doesn't work!
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