Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh
days=10
find /home -type f -atime $days | \
while read file
do
basename $file >>log.txt
cp "$file" /tmp/old
#What do you try to find here? The owner of the file? 
owner=$(find /home -type f -atime +5 -exec ls -l {} \;|awk '{print $3}')   
#Do you really want to send the log for each file?       
 mail -s "Log of the deleted files from your account " $owner@gmail.com < log.txt  
done

#!/bin/sh
days=10
temporal_folder=/tmp/`basename $0`-$$
$blacklist=/path/to/file

mkdir $temporal_folder 

find /home -type f -atime $days | \
while read file
do
     while read line
     do
          if [ $line != $file ]
          #is not a protected file
          owner=`ls -l $file | awk ' { print $3 } '`
          basename $file >> $temporal_folder/$owner
          cp $file /tmp/old
          fi 
     done < $blacklist #black list
done #find's output

for file in $temporal_folder
do
     mail -s "Log of the deleted files from your account " $file@gmail.com < $file
done

rm -rf $temporal_folder