When I run a script, to create a tar backup and delete files older than 7 days, with the find command it doesn't do -delete
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I wrote/copied, from internet, the script in notepad++ on windows 10. As you can see in below screenshot the code and the error I get. Th TAR file is being made, that works.
Use unix line endings (LF), not windows ones (CR+LF)
so long,
Hias
I can run the same command successfully here, so I think this might be a Windows line-endings issue which results in something being added to the command that "find" can't interpret. Run dos2unix on the file and see if that fixes the problem?
Thanks.
I don't get any errors now but it doesn't delete any files. As you can see in below image there are more than 7 files. I even changed chmod of the first 2 files to 777 to see if that was the problem, it was not....
The "find -mtime +7" option looks at filesystem timedate stamp (not filename) and the screenshot clearly shows all files as being created (or touched) on 22/8 so they are not in scope for deletion.
