Hello all,
Scenario: bash, #of days in year into verable and I want to use in find.

Sample:
#!/bin/bash
three=`date '+%j'`
two=`expr $three + 365`
one=`expr $two + 365`

todir='/usrdata/history/working'

for i in $(echo one two three)
do
out="outfile$i"
touch $out
find /usr4/daten -mtime +$("$i") >>$out
while read bla
do
echo $bla
#more command here for moving data
done < $out
done

Fault: the -mtime should read -mtime +"value for each verable"

How do I do this pleeeezz.

Do a
for i in $one $two $three
instead of
for i in $(echo one two three)

Further along... the road.


I am looking at using the verable name as a filename and the contents of the verable as the find criteria.
IE, lets say the verable 'three' contains the value 2554

I want the result >> into a file called 'three'
and the find command mist use -mtime +2554

so:
find . -mtime2554 > three.txt is what I want
and this is similar to how I want to get it abut I know there are errors.


one='expr 3333'
two='expr 3000'
three='expr 2554'

for i in $(echo one two three)
do
find . -mtime$i > $i.txt
done

Any ideas without having to use case.