Question

I have this incomplete command:

find /var/www/vhosts/domain/folder/ -name '*.flv' -size +5000k && /bin/mail -s "The file is available!" "[e-mail]" > /dev/null

I’m not able to insert a conditional, if the file is more than 5000k it must send mail, else no.

Thank you.

Answer 1

find always returns an exit code of 0 except if there was something wrong. Therefore you have to use something else to generate an appropriate exit code (!=0) that can be used with &&. I would suggest grep, e.g.:

find /var/www/vhosts/domain/folder/ -name '*.flv' -size +5000k | grep flv && /bin/mail -s "The file is available!" "[e-mail]" > /dev/null

If grep detects a line containing the string flv in the output of find it returns 0, otherwise 1. The mail command will only be executed on exit code 0 of grep.