[GLLUG] find / shell weirdness

[tid]

Folks,

I have a small bash script which watches a number of folders for files
added in the last 10 minutes:

($mydirs below is just a list of ftp folders which clients upload to )

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find $mydirs -type f -a -cmin -10 -print > /tmp/filewatcher.count

if [ `wc -l /tmp/filewatcher.count | awk ' { print $1 } ' ` -gt 0 ]
then
        # email me notification bla bla bla
        [ snip ]
fi
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So, this has been working fine but recently it's started giving me a
lot of false positives - i.e the 'if' statement is firing, but no files are
found - is there
some shell expansion going of which I'm unaware, or is it the more likely
PBKAC?

Tid
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