find: missing conjunction

[ikbea]

Hi all,

Use root to run cron job:
# find /var/adm/sa/* ! -name *gz -a -name ex* -exec /usr/contrib/bin/gzip {} \;

Sometimes, it performed successfully; sometimes, it returned:
find: missing conjunction

Is it related to system loading or any problem? Thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Put the strings specified with -name option in quotes so that shell will not try to expand them before find executes.

#find /var/adm/sa* ! -name '*.gz' -a -name 'ex*' ......

-Sri

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Put the strings specified with -name option in quotes so that shell will not try to expand them before find executes.

#find /var/adm/sa* ! -name '*.gz' -a -name 'ex*' |xargs /usr/contrib/bin/gzip

-Sri

[ikbea]

Thanks. It works without error again after quoted with ' or " in shell prompt.
I will try to run in cron job later to test.

Also related link
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x958f8cc5e03fd6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Muthukumar_5]

When ever you try commands with * ( wild card character's ) on shell try to delimit it with \ character there.

So use as,

find /var/adm/sa/ ! -name \*gz -a -name ex* -exec /usr/contrib/bin/gzip {} \;

Where -->
/var/adm/sa/* is same as /var/adm/sa/ or /var/adm/sa directories there.

Or you can delimit the character's with quotes there as,

find /var/adm/sa/ ! -name "*gz" -a -name "ex*" -exec /usr/contrib/bin/gzip {} \;

-Muthu