Originally posted by: chandru0078

hi gurus

I' getting error "parameter list too long" when develope script for copy 1 day oldeer file from source directory to target .I cannot effort change the sys0 or chsys config.Can we do script to copy.inside target directoty have 15days logs before delete last copy and create new copy.

source=/usr/cc/abc/mm/log/mm.trace.abc.11120.2009-05-25.txt copy to below path
target dir=/usr/bbb/mmtracelog/
find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/mm.trace*.txt -mtime -1 -exec cp '{}' /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/ \;

but why mtime -copy all older then today date?.how to make it copy only 1 days older then system date? pls help
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

Don't you want,

find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ -name "mm.trace*.txt" .........
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Originally posted by: chandru0078

hi
i have test that to its work but 1 problem is copying all under /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ .i only want 1 day older then system day ?so try to export date by using steps b

steps a

1. find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ -name 'mm.trace*.txt' -exec cp '{}' /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/ \;
2. cd /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/
3. ls -lrt

total 5162
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6130 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000195.11120.2009-05-23.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 18378 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000187.11120.2009-05-12.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2930 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000184.11120.2009-05-24.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6130 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000175.11120.2009-05-19.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 24520 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000175.11120.2009-05-18.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2930 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000173.11120.2009-05-13.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6168 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000164.11120.2009-05-21.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 12260 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000125.11120.2009-05-15.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 6130 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000090.11120.2009-05-21.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 5706 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000003.11120.2009-05-15.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 153462 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000001.11120.2009-05-26.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 68422 May 27 17:32 mm.trace.ATM00000001.11120.2009-05-25.txt
stpes b
export time=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ -name 'mm.trace*$time.txt' -exec cp '{}' /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/ \;

script completed without error but no files being copy ;(
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Originally posted by: Casey_B

Here's a general debugging trick:
use "set -x" to see how the shell has interpreted your command.
In your case, my initial thought is that your quoting is incorrect.
You can't have single quotes deny shell interpretation, and then expect your variable to be interpreted!

Try this:
set -x
find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ -name mm.trace\*${time}.txt -exec cp {} /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/ \;

(I also don't think you need the quotes around {})

Hope this helps
Casey
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Originally posted by: Casey_B

Here's a general debugging trick:
use "set -x" to see how the shell has interpreted your command.
In your case, my initial thought is that your quoting is incorrect.
You can't have single quotes deny shell interpretation, and then expect your variable to be interpreted!

Try this:
set -x
find /usr/cc/abc/mm/log/ -name mm.trace\*${time}.txt -exec cp {} /usr/bbb/mmtracelog/ \;

(I also don't think you need the quotes around {})

Hope this helps
Casey
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Originally posted by: hwyguy

Another thing you can do is change the value of NCARGS if you have root access.

AIX defaults to 6, but I set this to the max of 1024 in all of my servers and I've never received an "Arg List Too Long" with find, rm, cp, ls, etc since.

You change this running the following command:

chdev -l sys0 -a ncarcrgs

Of course, if you're uncomfortable going to the 1024 max, you can increase the value little by little until the error disappears.
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Originally posted by: Emittim3@Sirius

Like was said, the number of arguments limit is being exceeded in the shell. If you can't modify that, one of the tricks is to instead pipe the output of one command into another that executes on each line instead of attempting to execute on a list of arguments all in one command. So you could try piping the results of the find into a set of awk and xargs commands, or perform the operation in a shell loop instead of in the -exec portion of the find command.

Example:

find /home -name '*.core' -exec rm -f {} \;

<blork!!! argument list too long!!!>

could be re-written with:

find /home -name '*.core' | xargs -l1 rm -f

(should work, although I'm doing this from somewhat memory - but it should at least give you the idea.... if piping to xargs doesn't do it, you could perform in in a loop:)

for x in `find /home -name '*.core'`
do
rm -f $x
done
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Originally posted by: Emittim3@Sirius

Like was said, the number of arguments limit is being exceeded in the shell. If you can't modify that, one of the tricks is to instead pipe the output of one command into another that executes on each line instead of attempting to execute on a list of arguments all in one command. So you could try piping the results of the find into a set of awk and xargs commands, or perform the operation in a shell loop instead of in the -exec portion of the find command.

Example:

find /home -name '*.core' -exec rm -f {} \;

<blork!!! argument list too long!!!>

could be re-written with:

find /home -name '*.core' | xargs -l1 rm -f

(should work, although I'm doing this from somewhat memory - but it should at least give you the idea.... if piping to xargs doesn't do it, you could perform in in a loop:)

for x in `find /home -name '*.core'`
do
rm -f $x
done
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

(should work, although I'm doing this from somewhat memory - but it should at least give you the idea.... if piping to xargs doesn't do it, you could perform in in a loop:)

for x in `find /home -name '*.core'`
do

actually that doesn't work, unfortunately, that will result in the same error with a large result set

but this does (and this was tested with 1884 files):
#count the number of files retrieved...
ls $INPUT_DIR > input_dir.lst
ACTUAL_TOTAL=`(awk 'BEGIN {x=0;} /.mp3/ {x=x+1} END {printf "%s",x}' input_dir.lst)`

echo "Number of file retrieved = $ACTUAL_TOTAL"
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

hmm not sure about this one

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Originally posted by: Markovin

Long Path Tool helped me in this situation. http://PathTooDeep.com
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