Hi there,

I'm from an IT background and have recently taken on the responsibility of maintaining and administering Red Hat Critical servers. I have no experience in a Linux/Unix environment and all I know is self taught - treat me as a novice please.

I need to search to do the following:

1. Scan my FTP server for content 6 months or older;
2. Exclude 2 Directories from the find command;
3. Create a text file with it's findings and save it with the date and time as the name
4. Attach that file created and mail it out.

I've so far managed to do Steps 1, 3 & 4. I cannot seem to exclude Directories.

Also, despite the text files being created and attached, they are blank in the email but not in the directory they are created. Also, it only attaches the file from the location the file is created.

This command is to be put into a script so in theory it has to run from anywhere and not from within the folder - kind of defeat's my ambition and task here.

Here is what I managed to come up with:

find /ftp_mount/ftp_root/ -ctime +180 > /usr/bin/FTPpurgefiles/logs/ShowContent/ShowContent_`date "+%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M-%S"`.txt | mutt -s "Log" -a /usr/bin/FTPpurgefiles/logs/ShowContent/`ls -tr | tail -n 1` mail@me.com

If any genius out there can help with this, I'll send you a ton of Virtual Beer

Thanks in advance

If you want to exclude directories you need the -prune option. Here is an example:
where dir1 and dir2 are the directories to exclude.

Regarding the empty e-mail, it is due to the fact that the ls command is executed in the current working directory. Try to change it to:
Furthermore you don't need to put both the find and the mutt command in one line, since you redirect the output of find to a file and therefore nothing goes through the pipe. Hope this helps.

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Thanks colucix

3rd time editing this response - here goes.

Your prune command works a dream - many thanks!

The command I've now done is:

find /ftp_mount/ftp_root \( -wholename /ftp_mount/ftp_root/dir1 -o -wholename /ftp_mount/ftp_root/dir2 \) -prune -o -ctime +180 -print > /usr/bin/FTPpurgefiles/logs/ShowContent/ShowContent_`date "+%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M-%S"`.txt

I added your mutt command to the end of this line and it attached the file with the data in the text file, but only the first time. If you try again it attaches but is blank for some reason (not sure why this is). Also, it only attaches from within the folder it creates the file in like my original post:

find /ftp_mount/ftp_root \( -wholename /ftp_mount/ftp_root/dir1 -o -wholename /ftp_mount/ftp_root/dir2 \) -prune -o -ctime +180 -print > /usr/bin/FTPpurgefiles/logs/ShowContent/ShowContent_`date "+%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M-%S"`.txt | mutt -s Log -a $(ls -tr /usr/bin/FTPpurgefiles/logs/ShowContent | tail -1) mail@me.com

If I run this command outside the directory I get error messages:

Can't stat ShowContent_16-02-2014_12-25-35.txt: No such file or Directory
ShowContent_16-02-2014_12-25-35.txt: unable to attach file

If i run the above command without the mutt, it creates the file anyway. If i then run your Mutt command on it's own, outside the directory the file was saved to, it doesn't do what I want. instead it opens up Mail option where I confirm the Email address, Subject,
and an empty vi session.

Any ideas?

Hope I've made sense here :S

Any one?!