scripting help

[William Park]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:52:21PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> I want to check, in a script, for a file or files that are less than x
> number of days old.  If those conditions are met then do something.  I
> had something like this in mind:
> 
> find ${TOMCAT}build/backup -iname "*war_????????-????" \
>    -mtime -$BACKUPAGE || echo "No files found!"
> 
> However, I believe that if find encounters any errors, like permission
> denied, the exit value would change and the test would fail.
> 
> Can someone suggest a better way?

Check stdout insted of return value, ie.
    find ... | while read i; do
	echo "found $i"
    done
or in 2 steps (preferred),
    find ... > /tmp/x
    if [ -s /tmp/x ]; then
	echo "found something"
    fi

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