error with find

[minus0]

Hello,

I am having trouble executing the FIND command. when i do the following command
$ find . -name *log* -atime 2
find: bad option admin.log2003-03-10-00.00.08.203
find: path-list predicate-list

i am getting the above error. can some one tell me what am i missing here?

thanks a bunch

 

[jad]

try:
$ find . -name "*log*" -atime 2

 

[minus0]

hey

thanks for your tip and it does work the way i want it when i include "*log*" but now i am running into another issue when i try to execute

find . "*log*" -atime 2 -exec ls {} ;

from within a script file i get an error message as
find: incomplete statement

i am including the script itself (just a couple of lines )

#begin
cd $somepath
$(find . "*log*" -atime 2 -exec ls {}
#end
any suggestions?

Thanks again for your help

 

[jad]

you need a \ before the ;

 

[SamBones]

Actually, you need a space before the [tt];[/tt] too. Also, depending on your shell, the [tt]{}[/tt] can be causing you problems. I usually do it like this...
[tt]
find $SOMEPATH -name '*log*' -atime 2 -exec ls \{\} \;
[/tt]
Some finds have a [tt]-ls[/tt] option so you don't have to exec an ls.

Hope this helps.

 

[minus0]

Hi Sam,

What i am trying to do is remove some files that are atleast 2 days old. so the actual command would have a rm in place of ls as in

$(find . "*log*" -atime 2 -exec rm {}

but didn't want to end up removing some files without checking them first which is the reason for the ls.
when i executed the above command (with rm) i didnt get any error messages but the files didnt get deleted either.
any inputs?

Thanks

 

[bluelake]

find . "*log*" -atime 2 -exec rm {} \;

 

[Annihilannic]

You may also have to use -atime +2 to find files that were accessed more than 2 days ago. 2 on its own will find files accessed exactly two days ago. Annihilannic.