Jim, thanks for SO many answers! The +0 setting is ingenious! Brock On 6/7/05, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:30:48PM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > > I have two questions: > > > > 1. Does mailman add [tclug-list] to the subject automatically? The last time > > I asked a question it was not in the subject, I put it there manually this > > time. > > Yes, [tclug-list] should be added automatically. I didn't notice > whether it was there for your previous message or not, but if it > wasn't it might have been because you sent the message as both > text/plain and text/html. Please send only plain text to the > list. > > > 2. I am using the following commmand: > > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 ! -name ' > > LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; > > > > This will find files in $TARGET, owned by $USER, which are not named > > LogCleanup.list*, and have not been modifed in the last day or before. > > > > Correct? I am little ify on the -o command as I feel like it should be: > > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} ( -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 ) ! -name ' > > LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; > > I am not sure if I understand what you want, but if you want to > use parenthesis in your expression, if you are testing this from > a shell depending on which shell you are using, you may need to > escape them. So the your second expression would be: > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} \( -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 \) ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; > > If I understand what you want correctly, then I think that you > could get the same results with: > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} -mtime +0 ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; > > The best way to test this kind of expression is just to replace > your "gzip -f" with an "ls -l" and see if it finds the files that you > want it to. > > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons | > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >