I am a beginner programming shell scripts, right now I am doing a shell script to create zip files according to last modification of directory inside a path. Where date is:
today=date +%Y-%m-%d
customers=find /DOMINOAPP/Delta_Transfer/*/* -type d -name "*" -newermt $today | cut -d "/" -f4
I got this error:
./zips.sh: line 8: /bin/find: Argument list too long
Please anyone could you help me to fix this issue?
Wildcards (outside of strings) are expanded by the shell, so here /DOMINOAPP/Delta_Transfer/*/* is first expanded by the shell, then passed to find. If it contains a lot of files the list will be super long and you’ll get that error.
find already goes into all subdirectories, so you can remove those wildcards:
find /DOMINOAPP/Delta_Transfer -type d -name "*" -newermt $today To better understand wildcard expansion by the shell, compare the following commands:
$ touch a1 a2 a3 $ echo a* # <-- expansion, = 'echo a1 a2 a3' a1 a2 a3 $ echo "a*" # <-- no expansion, = 'echo a*' a* 