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# 1  
Old 10-26-2012
For loop failing cd command
Hi guys,

i've wrote the following loop;


Code:
for i in `ls`
 do
 cd $i/host
 cat "xxxx.txt" |grep "yyyy" >> zzzz.txt
 done

I have a set of folder with different name and i need to extract a value from a file contained in the host subfolder ( that is present in each folder).

When i run the script it returns the following error
"No such file or directory", but actually it exists...
# 2  
Old 10-26-2012
You are changing into directories and never changing back out. folder2 may exist, but it probably doesn't inside folder1! So do cd ../../ at the bottom of the loop to back back out.
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# 3  
Old 10-26-2012
Try this:-

Code:
for i in `find . -type d`
do
   cd ${i}/host
   cat xxxx.txt |grep "yyyy" >> zzzz.txt
   cd -
done

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# 4  
Old 10-27-2012
MySQL
Thanks guys!!

@Image bipinajith

Find command is recursive so it's better to use command such as 'ls'.

There was a missing / after
Code:
cd $i/host

Now i'm trying to understand the reason why the output redirection is not working...
Last edited by cecco16; 10-27-2012 at 07:46 AM..
# 5  
Old 10-27-2012
You can also use complete folder structure
Code:
cd /folder/${i}/host

then you no need to return to previous folder
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