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Old 05-01-2012, 05:53 PM   #1
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command find, wildcard and bash script howto


I am trying to run the command
find /var/log/httpd -iname access_log-201204* > /tmp/accesslist
from the bashscript but I cannot get it to work. How do I provide the * wildcard in bash script for the following script. I am trying to make a list of all the previous months access_log files

#!/bin/bash
YESTERDAY=`date -d " -1 day" +%Y%m%`
NOW=`date +%d`

if [ $NOW== "1" ]; then
find /var/log/httpd -iname access_log-$YESTERDAY > /tmp/filename
else
exit 0
fi


thank you for your help.
 
Old 05-01-2012, 06:15 PM   #2
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Put it in quotes

Code:
find /var/log/httpd -iname "access_log-201204*" > /tmp/accesslist
Without quotes your shell is expanding the access_log-201204* to all matches and then passing them into find

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Old 05-01-2012, 06:58 PM   #3
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see my script I cannot execute the following command with * at the end of $YESTERDAY can I ??

find /var/log/httpd -iname access_log-$YESTERDAY* > /tmp/filename
 
Old 05-01-2012, 07:03 PM   #4
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Sure, but you need to put it in quotes

Code:
$ ls
access_log-20120405  access_log-20120407  access_log-20120506
access_log-20120406  access_log-20120505  access_log-20120507
$ YESTERDAY=`date -d "-1 day" +%Y%m`
$ echo $YESTERDAY
201204
$ find . -iname "access_log-$YESTERDAY*"
./access_log-20120407
./access_log-20120406
./access_log-20120405
 
Old 05-01-2012, 07:46 PM   #5
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thanks!! I was amazed you could run that script and I couldn't, so I check the script again and found % at the end of YESTERDAY=`date -d " -1 day" +%Y%m%` that was creating the problem. Removed the % and it worked , my silly mistake.
 
  


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