Calling a find/remove within a script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Greetings all,

I am calling a remove from within a script that is used for a cleanup process.. It is not working as expected. Here is what I am doing.

I have a config file that lists out a directory name, and the options to run

Within the config file

DIR1="find /directory/holding"
DIR1OPTIONS="-type f ! -name \"*.gz\" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name \"*TIF*\" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {}+"

I have another script that I am scheduling via an external tool to run- Simple.

#!/bin/ksh
#Script Below#
#Add additional lines to config options.
. ./prune.config
 $DIR1 $DIR1OPTIONS

It is not working. I am getting the below error-

find: incomplete statement

I threw an echo statement under the script that runs and I am getting the output, it looks correct. If I copy it and then run it, it works.

I suspect something is up with the config file. Any suggestions

2

try this:

DIR1OPTIONS='-type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {}+'
3

Looks like the echo stays the same. I was trying to escape the items identified in -name.

[me@server:/me/scripts]> ./prune.ksh
find: incomplete statement
find /directory/holding -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {}+
4

Hi,
Try this:

find /directory/holding -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {}+ \;

The final \; for the exec clause is mandatory. I don't know why you add the plus sign to the filename : {}+ .

Try

-exec gzip {} \;

.

Regards.

5

Same result.

[me@server:/me/scripts]> ./prune.ksh
find: incomplete statement
find /directory/holding -type f ! -name *.gz ! -name *PDF* ! -name *TIF* -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} \;
6

The following may help:

ksh -x ./prune.ksh

So we can see how is parsed the statement.

Regards.

7 
[me@server:/me/scripts]> ksh -x ./prune.ksh
+ . ./prune.config
+ + date +%OY%Om%Od
TIMESTAMP=20170515
+ DIR1=find /directory/holding
+ DIR1OPTIONS=-type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} \;
+ find /directory/holding -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} \;
find: incomplete statement
+ echo find /directory/holding -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} \;
find /directory/holding -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name "*TIF*" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} \;
8

This script work fine in my computer:

#!/bin/ksh 
#Script Below# 
#Add additional lines to config options. 
. ./prune.config 
eval "$DIR1 $DIR1OPTIONS"

Regards.

---------- Post updated at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:12 PM ----------

This also work fine:

DIR1="find /directory/holding"
DIR1OPTIONS="-type f ! -name \"*.gz\" ! -name "*PDF*" ! -name \"*TIF*\" -size +1000k -mmin +120 -exec gzip {} ;"
$DIR1 $DIR1OPTIONS

(Without the backslash before the semi colon).

Regards.

9

Not necessarily. man find (on my linux: find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0-git)

But: a space before the + may be compulsory.

10

Yes, it's true. The problem was the lack of a space between {} and + .

Regards.