General :: "find" Command In Backup/zip Script?
Feb 13, 2011
I am fairly new to scripting and I am trying to write a script that finds and zips a file named file1.xml from multiple sub-directories. So basically I want to find them and zip them all together. The disk directory structure is as follows:
/mnt/data/user_name1/db/file1.xml
/mnt/data/user_name2/db/file1.xml
(etc, etc where user_name varies)
This is what I have so far, but I keep getting an error relating to the -name command.
filename=`date +%d%m%Y-%H:%M`
find /mnt/data/ -name file1.xml -maxdepth 2 -type d | zip -rp $filename.zip -@
I keep getting the following error but don't know how to fix it. Is what I am trying to do even possible?find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -name, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it).
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