On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:30:48PM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > I have two questions: > > 1. Does mailman add [tclug-list] to the subject automatically? The last time > I asked a question it was not in the subject, I put it there manually this > time. Yes, [tclug-list] should be added automatically. I didn't notice whether it was there for your previous message or not, but if it wasn't it might have been because you sent the message as both text/plain and text/html. Please send only plain text to the list. > 2. I am using the following commmand: > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 ! -name ' > LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; > > This will find files in $TARGET, owned by $USER, which are not named > LogCleanup.list*, and have not been modifed in the last day or before. > > Correct? I am little ify on the -o command as I feel like it should be: > find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} ( -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 ) ! -name ' > LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; I am not sure if I understand what you want, but if you want to use parenthesis in your expression, if you are testing this from a shell depending on which shell you are using, you may need to escape them. So the your second expression would be: find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} \( -mtime +1 -o -mtime 1 \) ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; If I understand what you want correctly, then I think that you could get the same results with: find ${TARGET} -type f -user ${USER} -mtime +0 ! -name 'LogCleanup.list*' -exec gzip -f {} \; The best way to test this kind of expression is just to replace your "gzip -f" with an "ls -l" and see if it finds the files that you want it to. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |