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Old 01-13-2009
Computer Scripting question

folks;
I have a script to remove any files that older than 14 days then move any files that younger than 7 days to another directory. but for some reason it doesn't move the files, when i do it manually it works but not through the script. i tried 2 different ways in writing the move part but it didn't work with any of them. Any help is greatly appreciated
here it's:


cd /var/lib/mysql

files=$(find . \( -name 'mysql-bin.0*' \) -mtime +14 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++' | sort -u)

if [ -z "${files}" ]; then
echo ""
echo "-------------------No SQL backup files to be removedi from the var directory -------------------------"
else
echo ""
echo ""
echo "...........Removing old files...................."
rm -rf ${files}
echo ""
echo ""
file=$(find . \( -name 'mysql-bin.0*' \) -mtime -7 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++' | sort -u)
#mv `find . \( -name 'mysql-bin.0*' \) -mtime -7 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++' | sort -u` /var/lib/mysql/backups/
mv ${file} /var/lib/mysql/backups/
sleep 1
fi
# 2  
Old 01-13-2009
Check if

Code:
$ cd /var/lib/mysql
$ find . \( -name 'mysql-bin.0*' \) -mtime -7 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++'

yields anything.
# 3  
Old 01-13-2009
I see files generated from the find command but they don't move when i run it through the script
# 4  
Old 01-13-2009
Paste output of
Code:
$ echo $file

after find.
# 5  
Old 01-13-2009
full_01-06-2009.sql
full_01-13-2009.sql
full_12-09-2008.sql
# 6  
Old 01-13-2009
Code:
$ sh -x yourscript.sh

See what's happening.
# 7  
Old 01-13-2009
i don't even see any "mv" in the output
 
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