Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All,

I am new to this shell scripting , I wanted to modify the output of my find command such that it does not display the path but only file names , for example I am searching for the files which are modified in the last 24 hours which is

find /usr/monitor/text/ -type f -mtime -1 -print , this is returning me the output as

/usr/monitor/text/abc.txt
/usr/monitor/text/def.txt
/usr/monitor/text/ijk.txt

but i want to modify the output such that it gives only the file names and remove the path

please advice me on this

You can pipe it to awk

awk '{ print $NF }' FS=/

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You can pipe it to awk

find /usr/monitor/text/ -type f -mtime -1 -print | awk '{ print $NF }' FS=/

you can cd to the directory you like and do something like this:

find . -type -print

The problem is that find walks down the directories, therefore if you have
a directory in your path you will get output like this

dir/file1
dir/file2
.....

You may want to consider outputing your results to a file, than reading
the conetents of the file line by line and calling 'basename' on each line. That will give you your desired results.

Keep in mind, you can have the same file name in different directories and
they can be differnt files.

Good luck

Thanks a lot the command works but I am getting an other error the basic idea of me using this script is to copy and back up the files , below is my entire code

#!/bin/ksh
#####################################################################################

##### This script is used to copy the dat files from the and copy the latest files from the shared location
#============================================================================
find /home/wasadmin/DatFiles/ -type f -mtime -1 -print | awk '{ print $NF }' FS=/ | while read filename
do
echo $filename
# Remove the Existing back-up DAT files
rm /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AV/backup_"${filename}"
mv /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AV/"${filename}" /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AV/backup_"${filename}"
# Copy files preserving permissions and create any directory needed
echo "${filename}"|cpio -pdumv /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AV; ERROR=$?
done
if [ $ERROR = 0 ]
then
mail -s "Copy of the latest Dat files Successful on $date" -c raokl@yahoo.com
else
mail -s "Copy of the latest Dat failed for:${filename}on $date" -c raokl@yahoo.com
fi

When i run this it is giving me the output as

cpio: 0511-025 Cannot get information about avvclean.dat.
0 blocks
avvnames.dat

I have checked out for the owner and other permissions they are correct , can you please let me know if i missing some where

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Thank you very much

I did not read and try to understand in depth what your script does but maybe this helps--it's in response to your original request to just print the file name from find output:

This strips the path info off the output and just shows the file name.