RE: Help with Unix find command

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:28:49 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0057EDA1.20030410082849@fatcity.com>

In Unix shells, variables and wildcards get parsed BEFORE they get passed to the program. This is fine most of the time, like when you "ls mydir/*", but not for find.

Try enclosing the ${ORACLE_SID}_exp_full*.log in quotes (double or single).

HTH! GL! :) Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

p.s. I hope I was the intended recipient of this e-mail. If not, ignore my error!

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Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:59 AM
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I am trying to format a find command to delete files older than n days. The command is in a script and incorporates the ORACLE_SID variable. I can't get the command to work with the first part of the file name as a variable.
It works fine if I hard code it. Any ideas?

Example: find . -name ${ORACLE_SID}_exp_full*.log -mtime +1 -exec ls {} \;

Thanks!
Ron
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