[Gllug] bash script to find, list and save log

[Jonathan Dye]

Liam Delahunty wrote:
> I have the following find command to get all the mail spool
> files that have been updated in the last day.
> 
> find /home/spool/mail -mtime -1 \! -type d -exec ls -lh '{}' ';'
> -print | sort >> /tmp/spool.mail.daily.log
> 
> which produces results such as:
> 
> line1: -rw-------    1 user1 home         1.9M Aug 20 08:40
> /home/spool/mail/user1 line2: -rw-------    1 user2 home            0
> Aug 20 10:13 /home/spool/mail/user2 line3: /home/spool/mail/user1
> line4: /home/spool/mail/user2
> 
> I don't want the extra /home/spool/mail/userx lines 3 and 4...
> 
> Could some kind soul tell me what I've done wrong in my command?

Remove the -print.

JD

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