Hello,

I am new to scripting and have been trying to compare two different directories, but with all the same file names in each directory for file changes. I have been doing it in baby steps and have been doing pretty good, but I have hit a few snags. Test 1 and Test 2 work great, but my ultimate end goal is for each file to have a "difference" file instead of one "difference" file. Also, I am using cygwin to do this. I am comparing two identical websites for changes in code.

Test 1 - Works great.

diff -r "www.website/intranet" "website_2/intranet" | grep -i | tee FileDetailDiff

diff -r -q "www.website/intranet" "website_2/intranet" | tee FileNameDiff

#!/bin/sh
find . -type f|grep .asp$ | while read file
do
   echo "$file"
done

$ sh textdiff4.sh
textdiff4.sh: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
textdiff4.sh: line 5: `done'

syntax for while loop to read a line is

while read line 
do
....
....
done <$file

Is this application for HP-UX ?

I am running this on a windows box using cygwin to run the script.

I tried the following:

find . -type f -name "*asp" > mylist

cat mylist | while read line
do
echo "Next file is: $line"
done < $line

$ sh textdiff4.sh
textdiff4.sh: line 7: $'\r': command not found
textdiff4.sh: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
textdiff4.sh: line 11: `done < $line'

find . -type f -name "*asp" > mylist
cat mylist

tr -d '\r' < your_file > newfile

Ignoring the MSDOS/unix line terminator issue which you have resolved.

This script is faulty because the input should either come from an inward redirect "<" or from a pipe "while read" but not both!:

It would be better as:

find . -type f -name "*asp" while read line
do
          echo "Next file is: $line"
done

Or alternatively in the POSIX manner.

find . -type f -name "*asp" > mylist

while read line
do
            echo "Next file is: $line"
done < mylist