Some help with a find/fuser/gzip crontab job

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello,

I am trying to write a housekeeping that finds all .trc files older than x days in a given FS, checks if they are used and gzips them if they are not used by any process. I need to do it without calling any additional .sh script.

I managed to make it work for Linux only:

find . -xdev -name "*.trc" -type f -mtime +5  -and -not -exec fuser -s {} ';' -and -exec gzip -9f {} ';'

Please advise how can I make it work on UNIX too. The '-and -not' options are not available there.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

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There are many UNIXes... depending what you mean with "UNIX", they are usually there. If you would check the man page for find, you might find -a and -o instead.

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Sorry, I forgot to mention it's HP UX

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Ok, did you check the man page for the switches I mentioned? Did it help?

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I tried it with -a -o but it gzipped everything, not only .trc files:

find . -xdev -name "*.trm" -type f -mtime +5 -a -exec !fuser -s {} ';' -o -exec gzip -9f {} ';'

I am doing something wrong but I am not sure where in the syntax