Find and -prune don't behave as expected 2

[dickiebird]

Hi Guys
I have a simple find command on AIX 4.3.3 :
find /sybase/applications/sda/outputs -name "CMGS*[0-9]" -mtime 1 -print -prune
but it also picks up all matching files in my sub-directory 'savold' ( 2-day old files saved away )
Which I don't want to catch in the find command!
I thought -prune would prevent this - I also tried
find . -name "CMGS*[0-9]" -mtime 1 -print -prune
and
find . -name "/sybase/applications/sda/outputs/CMGS*[0-9]" -mtime 1 -print -prune
and still catch the old saved files in dir savold.
Anybody care to enlighten me ?
Cheers ;-) Dickie Bird
db@dickiebird.freeserve.co.uk

 

[dickiebird]

Ooops - didn't point out that files in savold directory could be less than 24 hours old ( if previous run was late in executing) Dickie Bird
db@dickiebird.freeserve.co.uk

 

[toolkit]

Yep. You need to use:

find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -name CMGS*[0-9]" -mtime 1 -print \)

Cheers, Neil

 

[dickiebird]

Thanks Neil - That worked well ( when I put the missing " after -name )
If I have (less that 24 hours old) files from yesterday's run ( which I want to ignore ) still in my sybase/applications/sda/outputs directory, is there any method of using -mtime or -atime to ignore them ? ( by hours rather than days, for example )
Thanks

Dickie Bird
db@dickiebird.freeserve.co.uk

 

[toolkit]

The easiest way to do this is to create an empty 'timestamp' file either via cron or the script creating the output files, like:

touch timestamp

Then when you want to find files older than this timestamp, use:

find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f ! -newer timestamp -print \)

Cheers, Neil

 

[dickiebird]

An if I create the timestamp file first, I can find files created after this timestamp, using:

find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -name "CSG*" -type f -newer timestamp -print \)

Brill !
TAL

Dickie Bird
db@dickiebird.freeserve.co.uk