Find command giving me a tough time

[IMAUser]

Hi there,

I have this command

find . \( ! -name '*.gz' \) -mtime +7

Which shows me all the files not accessed in the last seven days and are not having extension of .gz . So logically speaking

find . \( ! -name '*.gz' \) -mtime +7 -exec gzip {} \;

This should gzip the files.
But for some reason, it dosent gzip and since the command is valid there isnt an error either. Have spent a lot of time but no getting anywhere. Any ideas folks ?

Thanks

 

[PHV]

Some flavor of

 find

need \{\}.

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[J1mbo]

How about this:

find . \( ! -name '*.gz' \) -mtime +7 | xargs gzip

-jim