bad 'find' job in cron

From: Shawn Bierman (BiermanS_at_METHODISTHEALTH.ORG)
Date: 05/27/03

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    Date:         Tue, 27 May 2003 08:54:32 -0500
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    Greetings,

    I have a job in cron that works fine from the command line but when the cron job runs i get the following email:

    find: 0652-009 There is a missing conjunction

    *****************************************************************
        cron: The previous message is the standard output
        and standard error of one of the cron commands.

    The cron entry looks like this:
    15 02 * * * (/usr/bin/find /sapbc/Server/logs -name \*.log -mtime +30 -xdev -type f | /usr/bin/xargs rm -f)
    20 02 * * * (/usr/bin/find /sapbc/Server/packages/SAP/logs -name \*.log -mtime +30 -xdev -type f | /usr/bin/xargs rm -f)

    Ran from the command line it works fine. What does cron not like here?

    -shawn

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