Unix find command...

Question

My problem exists with the behavior on the unix find command, or my lack of understanding of it.
For example, I work for a graphics company and we have a constant folder structure like this:
*12345 Apple - Poster*
~....~01_Layouts
~....~02_Images
~....~03_Fonts
~....~04ClientOriginals
~........~01.28.08_14:46
~........~03.07.08_15.03
~........~03.10.08_17.22
When we receive files from a customer, the CSR creates a folder inside 04ClientOriginals following a format like 03.06.08_10.15, and copies the files/folders from customer supplied media into them.
I have set up a launchd script that finds all of the date/time stamped folders inside of 04ClientOriginals that have not been modified within the past month and stuff them with the Stuffit command line utility. I do that with this command:
find . -type d –mtime +30 -ipath #/04ClientOriginals/# -exec /usr/local/bin/stuff -f sit5 -m 2 -o -D {} \;
This command works fine except in those cases where there are folders over 30 days old inside of a parent directory that is not 30 days old yet. I only want the find to descend to one level below 04ClientOriginals, and no further.
I thought by adding an extra "/" at the end of the path #/04ClientOriginals/#/ instead of #/04ClientOriginals/# would keep it from descending further down, but when I try this the search returns no results. Also, I can’t use -maxdepth in my find arguments because the depth of 04ClientOriginals is not always constant.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Edit: Due to the lack of decent markup tools for formatting code on the Apple Discussion Board, the wildcards in my file paths have been substituted with a "#". Kind of ridiculous for a unix discussion board to not have code highlighting capability.
Message was edited by: Guriboy

Answer 1

etresoft wrote:
I don't know if these will work or not. Regular expressions are powerful, but tricky. Plus, there are a few different, but similar, varieties. Also, I don't know if the find within a find syntax will work. This might be something that is better suited to Perl. You would then have much more control over what you are doing.
Running this find command finds exactly what I'm looking for:
find . -type d -name "04ClientOriginals" -exec find {} -mtime +30 -type d -maxdepth 1 ;
I hope I'm wrong, but can't you call -exec only once? As a test I ran this:
find . -type d -name "04ClientOriginals" -exec find {} -mtime +30 -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -l {} ;
If I invoke -exec a second time, I get this error:
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
I've searched high and low and I cannot find an example of the find command calling -exec more than once.
My regex skills are pretty weak, so I'll only tread those waters if I have to.