On 2014-01-20 6:51 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:38:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:The pertinent part of the script is:# delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_nightly/* | tail -n +61) rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_hourly/* | tail -n +46)It works fine and does what it is supposed to, but the email I get as a result of the script running says only this in the body: rm: missing operand Try 'rm --help' for more information.Do you have a file with an odd name in either of those directories, particularly one starting with a -
No, they are all sql.gz files, starting with the date, like: 2014-01-05_0958-hostname-all.sql.gz
You could try adding "echo rm $(ls -1t ..." to the script to see what it
is actually trying to run.
Or you could use find instead
find $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_nightly -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} +
Ok, may try that... thx...
