 <p>you've mixed quoting</p> <pre><code> job: "find /opt/app/log/ -maxdepth 1 \( -name '*out.*[0-9]' -o -name '*.log.[0-9]' \) -type f -size +100M -exec tar -czf {}.tar.gz {} \;" </code></pre> <p>this should be better</p>