HI ,

I am trying to wite a script that will prompt me saying " what is path that you want to find ?". once i specify the path, the script should put this path in the find command mentioned below and execute the script:

find <path> -ctime +200 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;


for example :

Imagine i have script called shell.sh, when i run this it should ask me in the prompt saying "what is path that you want to find ?"

when i specify some path like : /usr/local/

then it should take this as input in the find command in the script like below and give me the results:

find /usr/local/ -ctime +200 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;



Can someone help me out?

Thanks,
Sandeep

This sounds suspiciously like homework but in the offchance that it is not
here is one way of doing it:

hi thanks very much...being frank its not a homework question ...i am just trying to figure out something that i will need in future

Hi ,

i created a sheel script with what you had specified and then ran it as sandeep.sh as below

This does not work...it gives me error as follows:

[root@bon05 EA]# sandeep.sh
-bash: sandeep.sh: command not found


************************************************
##!/usr/bin/sh -x

read dir?"what is the path that you want to find ?" > /EA/sandeep.log

find $dir -ctime +200 -type f -exec ls -l {} \; >> /EA/sandeep.log

*****************************************************


Please help

use the korn shell as in the script that he posted. #!/bin/ksh or whatever the path is to ksh on you machine.

you probably should run the script by ./sandeep.sh as the directory is probably not in your $PATH

Thanks ...just one more thing ....what if a user just not supply any path to the question , can i add that check in the script...if so how can i do that?..thanks again

This is how my program looks can you please tell me why i am getting errors when i run the script as

$./sandeep.sh
./sandeep_new.sh: line 12: read: `dir?what is the path that you want to find ?': not a valid identifier

./sandeep_new.sh: line 13: read: `dir?Please specify a valid path to search ?': not a valid identifier
./sandeep_new.sh: line 23: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./sandeep_new.sh: line 23: `else'


#!/bin/ksh

NULL=""; export NULL #If the user specifies NULL value

echo "The cvs file script has started............................................"
read dir?"what is the path that you want to find ?"
read dir?"Please specify a valid path to search ?"

if [ "$dir" = "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""
read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

read log?"Please specify a valid log file(ex:/logs/sandeep.log) that needs to created that will dump the results on the log file ?"

else
n*|N*)
echo exiting from program...;;
esac

if [ "$log" == "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""
read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

read days?"Please specify the valid number as the number of days for the serach ?"
if [ "$days" == "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""

read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

find $dir -ctime +$days -type f -exec ls -l {} \; > $log

else
n*|N*)
echo exiting from program...;;
esac


fi
fi

fi



exit