Shell Script to delete files

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/4/20 Akash Jain <akash.delhite at gmail.com>:
> My aim is to delete more than 5 days old files which are no longer used by
> any process. As a starter I have written following script, but it does not
> work, says line 10 command not found.
>
> HOME=~/var
>
> cd $HOME
>
> for f in `find . -type f`; do
>   if [`lsof -n $f`]; then

I think you need a space before and after [ and ] respectively:
if [ `lsof -n $f` ]; then

”[” is a command and is a synonym to ”test”, therefore you need the spaces.



Johnny Rosenberg

>
>        echo $f
>   fi
>
> done
>
> Thanks !
> Akash
>
>
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