[X-Unix] Script - works, but not where I need it to

[Bert Knabe]

On Jun 30, 2004, at 9:13 PM, Bert Knabe wrote:

>
> On Jun 30, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>
>> At 20:08 -0500 2004/06/30, Bert Knabe wrote:
>>> find /Volumes/composing/\ \ \ Running\ Ads/* -mtime 1 -exec cp -p {} 
>>> /Volumes/Online/\PDF\'S/In/ \;
>>
>> What is that star doing there? The first argument of find is supposed 
>> to be a single directory. The rest are commands starting with a 
>> "-something" label.
>
> I'll have to ask the guy at corporate that wrote it for me. I assumed 
> it was a wildcard, although I couldn't imagine why it would be 
> necessary, since the idea was to copy files modified in the last 24 
> hours.
>
> But I don't think that would be the problem. The script works when run 
> from my iMac (accessing the directories on the server),

Oops, that should have said, "but gives the error:filecopy22.txt: 
/usr/bin/find: Argument list too long when run on the server."

I've also tried removing /Volumes/ from the path, but that 
(predictably) causes the script to lose the directories.

>
> I changed the shell on the Xserve from tcsh to bash, hoping that was 
> the problem, but it gave the same error.

Bert Knabe
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