exec problem

[John Henrikson]

I've got a line in my crontab which suddenly isn't working correctly:
find /tmp/v_*.log ! -newer /tmp/last -exec rm {} ; touch /tmp/last > /dev/null 2>&1

It is giving me the error:
find: cannot access /tmp/last

Any ideas appreciated!
thanks!
John H.

[Pete Randall]

John,

How aobut permissions on /tmp/last? Since you touch it each time, has your umask changed?


Pete

[nibble]

is /tmp/last existing? how about the permission?

[John Henrikson]

It does exist, I'm changing the permissions to see if that solves it thanks!
John H.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

/tmp/last is not there when script runs

That is the only cause


Find format
find / \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' \) -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

You do not have \; so also problem

Steve Steel

[John Henrikson]

It does exist, should I remove it?
I'm changing the permissions to see if that solves it thanks!
John H.

[Muthukumar_5]

hai,

If you are not having the file /tmp/last then find command cannot access the file and validate the /tmp/v*.log file weather it is not newer than the /tmp/last file.

Create the file first with touch then use the find command as like to validate the /tmp/v_*.log,

touch /tmp/last; find /tmp/v*.log ! - newer /tmp/last -exec rm {} > /dev/null 2>&1

It will work now.