find hint

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi pals,

Inside a script I am trying to find files using variables, then the command construction seems fine but not run. I have even tried to escape the -exec parsed {} but nothing. Where I am failing?

FILENAME="trartiaur*.txt"
EXPIRATION=60
COMMAND="/usr/contrib/bin/gzip -9"

find . -type f -name $FILENAME -mtime +$EXPIRATION -exec $COMMAND {} \;

Rgds.

[MarkSyder]

Do you get an error message?

What happens if you run the find command from the command line?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

No error message is displayed, even the $? value is zero.

Rgds.

[Peter Godron]

Jose,
have you tried:
find . -type f -name "${FILENAME}" -mtime +${EXPIRATION} -exec ${COMMAND} {} \;

[Jose Mosquera]

Yeap, I've tried!

[MarkSyder]

Sorry if this is insulting, but is it possible there are no files that meet the criteria?

Mark

[Peter Godron]

Jose,
on my machine:
#!/usr/bin/sh
FILENAME="*.txt"
EXPIRATION=2
COMMAND="ls -l"
find . -type f -name "${FILENAME}" -mtime +${EXPIRATION} -exec $COMMAND {} \;

$ ./a.sh
-rw-r----- 1 godronpw users 695 May 11 12:29 ./perl.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 godronpw users 670 May 11 12:30 ./perl2.txt


Otherwise I can only advise to slowly build up your find i.e. start with find . -name "${FILENAME}" then add the other bits one by one.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi pals,

I get it! An extra (unwished) double quotation marks character included into FILENAME variable was the pain!

In any case, thank you very much and points for everybody!

Rgds.

[Jose Mosquera]

Thank you and best regards.