how to echo find command
For a raspberry backup bash-script I want to log which and how many older backups are deleted.
I use
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
to clean.
How do I count and display and log to a file which files are deleted?
bash find
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For a raspberry backup bash-script I want to log which and how many older backups are deleted.
I use
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
to clean.
How do I count and display and log to a file which files are deleted?
bash find
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For a raspberry backup bash-script I want to log which and how many older backups are deleted.
I use
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
to clean.
How do I count and display and log to a file which files are deleted?
bash find
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For a raspberry backup bash-script I want to log which and how many older backups are deleted.
I use
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
to clean.
How do I count and display and log to a file which files are deleted?
bash find
bash find
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find has an fprint action that can write the results of the find command to a file. You can then extend your command as:
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -fprint /path/to/log.txt -delete
You can then retrieve the file count from the log file, by using wc:
cat /path/to/log.txt | wc -l
If special characters can appear in the results of find, you can use the the fprint0 option as an alternative. This will write the results to the specified file as null-delimited strings.
To count the items in the resulting file, you can look the options discussed under this question: Count null delimited items in file.
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Not all implementations offindsupportfprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc:wc -l <FILE>is enough.
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage ofcat, I used it so that the output is only a number.wcshows the filename beside the count with thewc -l filesyntax.
– Haxiel
54 mins ago
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You can use the -print option of find, to output the files that are deleted, then pipe things to tee to write results into a logfile. And finally count the lines of the deleted files and append it in the logfile.
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete -print | tee ${LOGFILE} | wc -l | xargs echo "Files deleted:" >> ${LOGFILE}
If you want to append new results to the same ${LOGFILE} you would have to use tee -a.
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find has an fprint action that can write the results of the find command to a file. You can then extend your command as:
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -fprint /path/to/log.txt -delete
You can then retrieve the file count from the log file, by using wc:
cat /path/to/log.txt | wc -l
If special characters can appear in the results of find, you can use the the fprint0 option as an alternative. This will write the results to the specified file as null-delimited strings.
To count the items in the resulting file, you can look the options discussed under this question: Count null delimited items in file.
answered 1 hour ago
Haxiel
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Not all implementations offindsupportfprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc:wc -l <FILE>is enough.
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage ofcat, I used it so that the output is only a number.wcshows the filename beside the count with thewc -l filesyntax.
– Haxiel
54 mins ago
add a comment |
find has an fprint action that can write the results of the find command to a file. You can then extend your command as:
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -fprint /path/to/log.txt -delete
You can then retrieve the file count from the log file, by using wc:
cat /path/to/log.txt | wc -l
If special characters can appear in the results of find, you can use the the fprint0 option as an alternative. This will write the results to the specified file as null-delimited strings.
To count the items in the resulting file, you can look the options discussed under this question: Count null delimited items in file.
answered 1 hour ago
Haxiel
1,099310
1
Not all implementations offindsupportfprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc:wc -l <FILE>is enough.
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage ofcat, I used it so that the output is only a number.wcshows the filename beside the count with thewc -l filesyntax.
– Haxiel
54 mins ago
add a comment |
find has an fprint action that can write the results of the find command to a file. You can then extend your command as:
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -fprint /path/to/log.txt -delete
You can then retrieve the file count from the log file, by using wc:
cat /path/to/log.txt | wc -l
If special characters can appear in the results of find, you can use the the fprint0 option as an alternative. This will write the results to the specified file as null-delimited strings.
To count the items in the resulting file, you can look the options discussed under this question: Count null delimited items in file.
answered 1 hour ago
Haxiel
1,099310
find has an fprint action that can write the results of the find command to a file. You can then extend your command as:
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -fprint /path/to/log.txt -delete
You can then retrieve the file count from the log file, by using wc:
cat /path/to/log.txt | wc -l
If special characters can appear in the results of find, you can use the the fprint0 option as an alternative. This will write the results to the specified file as null-delimited strings.
To count the items in the resulting file, you can look the options discussed under this question: Count null delimited items in file.
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1,099310
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Not all implementations offindsupportfprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc:wc -l <FILE>is enough.
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage ofcat, I used it so that the output is only a number.wcshows the filename beside the count with thewc -l filesyntax.
– Haxiel
54 mins ago
add a comment |
1
Not all implementations offindsupportfprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc:wc -l <FILE>is enough.
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage ofcat, I used it so that the output is only a number.wcshows the filename beside the count with thewc -l filesyntax.
– Haxiel
54 mins ago
1
1
Not all implementations of
find support fprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc: wc -l <FILE> is enough.– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
Not all implementations of
find support fprint, GNU find does but busybox for example does not. It's also not mandated by POSIX: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html. And you don't need cat to count number of lines with wc: wc -l <FILE> is enough.– Arkadiusz Drabczyk
1 hour ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage of
cat, I used it so that the output is only a number. wc shows the filename beside the count with the wc -l file syntax.– Haxiel
54 mins ago
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk Thanks for the information on POSIX find. Regarding the usage of
cat, I used it so that the output is only a number. wc shows the filename beside the count with the wc -l file syntax.– Haxiel
54 mins ago
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You can use the -print option of find, to output the files that are deleted, then pipe things to tee to write results into a logfile. And finally count the lines of the deleted files and append it in the logfile.
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete -print | tee ${LOGFILE} | wc -l | xargs echo "Files deleted:" >> ${LOGFILE}
If you want to append new results to the same ${LOGFILE} you would have to use tee -a.
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Thomas
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You can use the -print option of find, to output the files that are deleted, then pipe things to tee to write results into a logfile. And finally count the lines of the deleted files and append it in the logfile.
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete -print | tee ${LOGFILE} | wc -l | xargs echo "Files deleted:" >> ${LOGFILE}
If you want to append new results to the same ${LOGFILE} you would have to use tee -a.
answered 44 mins ago
Thomas
3,70061225
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You can use the -print option of find, to output the files that are deleted, then pipe things to tee to write results into a logfile. And finally count the lines of the deleted files and append it in the logfile.
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete -print | tee ${LOGFILE} | wc -l | xargs echo "Files deleted:" >> ${LOGFILE}
If you want to append new results to the same ${LOGFILE} you would have to use tee -a.
answered 44 mins ago
Thomas
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You can use the -print option of find, to output the files that are deleted, then pipe things to tee to write results into a logfile. And finally count the lines of the deleted files and append it in the logfile.
find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete -print | tee ${LOGFILE} | wc -l | xargs echo "Files deleted:" >> ${LOGFILE}
If you want to append new results to the same ${LOGFILE} you would have to use tee -a.
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