Find Command options

[IMAUser]

Hi ,

I am trying to use the find command in a script within a loop like

find ${FILE_DIR} -name $FILE_NAME -mtime +7 -exec gzip {} \;

I am passing the FILE_DIR and FILE_NAME variables.

I need to exclude the files which are already zipped. Is there a way to say {and NOT FILES with an extension of .gz} within the find command.

I dont think -prune can be used here, coz it looks for directories and not individual files.

Many thanx,

 

[vgersh99]

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

vlad
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[vgersh99]

ooops, sorry:

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

vlad
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[IMAUser]

Hey Thanx that works, except it shld have been a
-a and not -o

Didnt know you cud do that.

Thanx again,

 

[PHV]

Simplest way:

find $FILE_DIR -name $FILE_NAME ! -name '*.gz' -mtime +7 -exec gzip {} \;

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[SamBones]

Well, actually, you don't need to test for it. Gzip won't try to compress a file that's already been gzip'ed. It will just say...
[tt]
$ gzip file.gz
gzip: file.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
[/tt]
So, you'll get some warnings, but you won't be gzipping files that have already been gzipped.

Hope this helps.

 

[IMAUser]

Hi Sambones,

You are right it will not zip the files, but it still throws up warnings which I wanted to avoid. And I have used the methods mentioned above by PHV and vgersh99.

Thanx to you all for the responses.