Hi all,
I've got a cron job that runs a mysqldump script, and the last part of
that script removes the oldest of the files in the backup_dir.
The pertinent part of the script is:
# delete aged backup files, keeping 60 nightlies and 45 (5 days of) hourlies
rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_nightly/* | tail -n +61)
rm $(ls -1t $MySQL_BACKUP_DIR_hourly/* | tail -n +46)
It works fine and does what it is supposed to, but the email I get as a
result of the script running says only this in the body:
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
Like I said, the oldest files do actually get deleted, so apparently
these messages are harmless, but why do I get them, and is there
something I can do to 'fix' the script so I don't?
Thx
Charles
