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AIX command help
I have this command in my script and it's working fine with AIX:
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ls init?*.ora 2>/dev/null | egrep -i -e "" does anyone have better idea how to make it work for both ? Thanks Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 05-01-2008 at 05:30 AM. Reason: added code tags 
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What's the nature of the failure? What's the point of grepping for nothing (and really, what's the point of ignoring case in a string which doesn't have case!)? If you want to check if there was any output, even just an empty line, perhaps grep ^ would work on both platforms. But if ls works, the output should not have empty lines, so you could simply grep for a dot (meaning at least one character, any character).
(Just guessing that the problem is with egrep "" failing on Solaris. Perhaps you could check on that and report back.)
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I would like to add to what era said that - AIX or not - this is the most awkward way to check for the existence of a file i have ever seen. Why not use something like:
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if [ -f /your/file ] ; then
<whatever you want to do with the file here>
else
print -u2 "ERROR: file /your/file doe not exist!"
fi
"test -r" tests if it exists and is readable "test -w" tests if it exists and is writable etc., see to man page for "test" I hope this helps. bakunin
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