i am writing this shell script which logs in remotely to my squid server checks the log file if its 7 days old, if it exist then copy it to my machine to run a utility on the logfile
this is the script it

#!/bin/bash
# this script copies the access log file from the squid server copies it to 10.200.2.93 runs the sarg utility and the resulted report is sent back to server at /media/usbdisk/sarg_logs
locate=$(ssh -l root 10.200.2.28 | dir=/media/usbdisk/squid/access/ | file=$(find $dir -daystart -mtime 8)| echo $file)
#sarg -l $file

i can successfully login to the server but cannot check for the file and copy it to my machine

can someone help me

First rule of scripting: Try the commands first in interactive mode to make sure you know how they work.

In this case, I don't think you are using the pipe (|) correctly. A pipe is used to feed the output of a command to another command which is expecting input.

I asked my brother who is much better in coding than me and he told me that the script should look like this

He created a similiar script to yours, so if you need help in doing the same, he told me he can give you a hand

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