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There are two files one is shell script (sample.sh) and another is configuration file (sampl_conf.cfg)

configuration file contains one variable $FTP_HOME. the value of this variable vaires for user to user. If user is say jadoo then value is /home/jadoo/ftp/, for user1 - /home/user1/ftp. The value can be seen at command prompt by typing "echo $FTP_HOME".

In shell script $FTP_HOME variable is used to find out some old file in that path (/home/jadoo/ftp).

Shell scripts reads the configuration file line by line and assing $FTP_HOME variable to another variable say "path"

Code:

 
#!/bin/sh
...........
    path=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f1`
    duration=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f2`
    filename=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f3`
    path="$path"
path=`eval echo $path`
    if [ "$filename" != "" ] ; then
         `find $path/$filename -type f -mtime $duration >> $tmpfile;`

Now find should search mentioned file for specific duration in $FTP_HOME directory, but it unable to replace the $FTP_HOME variable by its value.
below error displays on terminal

find: stat() error /log*: No such file or directory

Sample configuration file

Code:

 
$FTP_HOME +15 log*

thanks in advance.

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any kind of help will be appricated.

Where is FTP_HOME set? Because cron jobs do not read any login scripts (/etc/profile, ~/.profile, ...)

is there any way to find out where $FTP_HOME is set??

OS - Sun Solaries

If it's set system-wide for all users, look in /etc/profile or any scripts invoked by ~/.profile. Depending on the shell you might have to check /etc/*bash*, ~/.bashrc, ~/.login too.

Unable to understand the requirement completely, but as far as the config file parameter,
you have to source to file within "sample.sh"

you sample code is also incomplete;
after aligning the code, I found this

Code:

#!/bin/sh
path=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f1` 
duration=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f2`
filename=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f3`
path="$path"
path=`eval echo $path`

if [ "$filename" != "" ] ; then
	`find $path/$filename -type f -mtime $duration >> $tmpfile;`

which is incomplete.

In addition, reassigning path to the same value doesn't make any sense.
there is no need to run the find command in another shell.