Question

I’m trying to copy $CurrentFile from $CurrentDir to $CurrentBackup. The problem that I’m having is that this file copies every $CurrentFile from parent directory.
So for example,

let say input is this

CurrentDir=/home/usr/logs
CurrentFile='SystemOut_*'
CurrentDay=6
CurrentBackup=/backup

But, this command will copy every $CurrentFile from /home/usr/Serverinf to $CurrentBackup…

find . $CurrentDir . -type f -name $CurrentFile -mtime +$CurrentDay -exec cp {} $CurrentBackup \;

I’m not sure what I did wrong…Can anyone tell me what I did wrong?
If I can’t use this command, could you tell me alternative command for this?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

As far as I can tell the problem is the extra dots:

find . $CurrentDir . -type f -name $CurrentFile -mtime +$CurrentDay -exec cp {} $CurrentBackup \;

     -             -

You’re telling find to search in the current directory and $CurrentDir. Get rid of the dots and also use double quotes to prevent the shell from expanding names before find ever sees them.

find "$CurrentDir" -type f -name "$CurrentFile" -mtime "+$CurrentDay" -exec cp {} "$CurrentBackup" \;