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i am writing a script which finds files that have not been accessed for a no of days and delete those files...the no of days value is inputted at the command line....
i am using the following :
find $1 -atime +7 -exec rm -i
in the second step i want to copy all of those files that the above line finds to a list and archive them using GNU tar...once i archive these files i can go on and delete them.....Also the archive name should include the date so that a existing archive not be overwritten...
Well, that certainly is sad to hear. Luckily there's other things to do like building a Radius server, Oracle cluster or just work on World Domination.
try removing the quotations and brackets from the FILELIST argument. i.e. tar --args $FILELIST quoting will keep the \n from the original find command. Try doing:
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