Originally posted by: rob_hansen

Hello,

I am using the following find command in a shell script to find orphan files (files with no UID/GID) on AIX servers. It works for fine for most of the servers but fails for a few. The code and error are below:
case "$OSNAME" in
AIX) print "Orphan files found..."
nice find / -name "/proc" -prune -o \
\( -fstype jfs -o -fstype jfs2 \) -a \( -nouser -o -nogroup \) -print | xargs ls -ld

The error:

ls: 0653-341 The file /opt/wily/EM1/Baseline/Individual does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file JVM does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file Alert does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file MM/JWG36.jar does not exist.
Please help. Thanks.
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Originally posted by: jnordtome

Take a look at the /opt/wily/EM1/Baseline directory and look to see if there are any files with spaces in their names. This can cause the errors you are seeing.

My guess is that there's a file called "/opt/wily/EM1/Baseline/Individual JVM Alert MM/JWG36.jar"
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Originally posted by: shargus

What if you took the "| xargs ls -ld" off?
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Originally posted by: rob_hansen

jnordtome....you are right the filename had spaces in it. However, I cannot control the way a file is named..that being said. I changed the code to ( -fstype jfs -o -fstype jfs2 \) -a \( -nouser -o -nogroup \) -exec ls -ld {} +
This code is working fine for servers that have filenames with spaces but fails for a clean server (when there are no files with invalid UID/GID) as shown below:
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute :: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

Any advice on this??

Thanks.
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Originally posted by: jnordtome

I'm unsure what the "+" character at the end of your statement does. Normally my find\exec statements are ended with a "\;"

This appears to work in my testing. Give it a shot and let us know if it still doesn't work.
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