Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

i ahve to find a file "pattern*", from current directory to all its sub directories.
i have tried with this

find . -name "customer*"
but here it displayed files with that name only from current directory, not from all its sub directories.
i want a list of files with matched patterns recursively-sub directories;.

i have issued this also
find $HOME -depth -name "*customer*.scr" -type f | more
here also it displayed only files in home directory alone. not sub-directories...
and if it is a big output list, so i used more - more doesn't effect here.
please guide me.

$ find /home/$USER/* -name "*customer*.scr" | more

dkcl,

its still searching in home directory ony.
its not giving me the file list which resides in sub directories.

please suggest me.

Very strange because find is recursive per default.

Code:

root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> tree
.
|-- bla.pl
|-- dir
|   |-- bla
|   |-- blaa
|   |-- blaaa
|   |-- subdir1
|   |   |-- lala
|   |   |-- lalaa
|   |   |-- lalaaa
|   |   `-- me
|   `-- subdir2
|       |-- me
|       |-- nana
|       |-- nanaa
|       `-- nanaaa
|-- infile
`-- me

3 directories, 14 files
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> find . -type f -name me -print
./me
./dir/subdir1/me
./dir/subdir2/me

find /your/directory -name "customer*" -exec ls -lrt '{}' \; -print

In principle your first version of the command is correct. I would add a "-print" clause, because this is not implied on all systems, but that is not contributing to your problem.

You might notice, that the filemask in your first and second example differ: the first one will find only files whose name start with "customer", the second one finds files with "customer" anywhere in the name, but ending in ".scr". It might be that there is only one file in either case that matches this particular pattern. Try

Code:

find . -name "*customer*" -print

and see if this gives you more hits.

If this is not the case: could you please tell us the name and version of your OS? I encountered a similar problem once in AIX 5.1, which turned out to be a bug. It is described here.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Hi I am new to scripting , need some clarification while assigning the output of 'FIND' command to a variable.

i.e. I am trying to find a file in a directory (I know it exists) and then wish to assign the file_name to a variable say 'file'

Now this is how my shell looks .

${i} # variable for storing file name
for i in `find ${FTP_DIR}/RTM/Outbound -type f -name '*file_name*' -print`;
do cp $i ${TGT_DIR};
done;

Above command works fine (i.e. copies file 'file_name' from RTM/Outbound to TGT_DIR).

Now I wish to store this name of the file to a variable say 'x' so that I can
further work on it.

I wrote the following command for getting the file name from TGT_DIR

${v}
v=`find ${TGT_DIR} -type f -name 'file_name' -printf %f`
echo ${v}

I encounter a error :
find: bad option -printf
find: path-list predicate-list
v=
+ echo