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# 1  
Old 05-07-2015
Passing Variable in -mtime command
Hi,
As the process of log cleanup, Im using the below command

Code:
 
find $DIR -mtime +3 -type f -exec gzip {} \;

The problem is I want to pass +3 as variable in my unix shell.
I have defined ZPDATE=+3 in my properties file and calling this property file in my script.

If i try the below, it says invalid argument in -mtime

Code:
 
find $DIR -mtime $ZPDATE -type f -exec gzip {} \;

.

Can you help me with this asap
# 2  
Old 05-07-2015
Works for me. Run it with the -x option set and post the output.
# 3  
Old 05-07-2015
Yes Rudic, it worked with
Code:
-x

another problem with this is it was not able to find the files recursively in directories.

For Eg, as per the below command
Code:
 
find $DIR -mtime +7 -type f -exec gzip {} \;

$DIR has many sub directories. Say if the directory was modifed within 7 days but the files inside it wasn't modified.

This command is not picking up all the files. it just checks the last modified time for directory and leaves but not the files inside it.

DIR
Code:
 
drwxr-xr-x * * * 4096 May  7 07:57 20150312

FILES inside 20150312

-
Code:
rw-r--r-- 1 * * * Apr 29 05:56 log.20150312.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 * * * Apr 29 05:56 report.20150312.csv

The above command fails here. Can you help in processing the files inside directory as well.
# 4  
Old 05-07-2015
I can't reproduce what you are saying. On both my linux and FreeBSD systems the old files are found even though the directory itself was modified recently.
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# 5  
Old 05-08-2015
Hi Rudic,

Can you help me to perform this in a soft link (not the file or directory)

Code:
ls -lrt $TMP 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 * * 16 Apr 20 07:55 /home/deena/tmp -> /app/deena/tmp

Code:
 
find $TMP -mtime +4 -type f

is not giving any output
# 6  
Old 05-08-2015
How about reading man find yourself:
Quote:
OPTIONS
.
.
.
-P Never follow symbolic links. This is the default behaviour. When find examines or prints information a file, and the file is a symbolic link, the information
used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself.


-L Follow symbolic links. When find examines or prints information about files, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the file to which the
link points, not from the link itself (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to examine the file to which the link points). Use of this option
implies -noleaf. If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will still be in effect. If -L is in effect and find discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory dur‐
ing its search, the subdirectory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.
# 7  
Old 05-13-2015
Actually you need -H option here:
Code:
find -H $TMP ...

Alternative:
Code:
cd $TMP &&
find . ...

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