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Old 01-10-2013
Power Find a set of files in a location
Hi, I am new to Unix. I need a script to check some 74 files are present in a particular location or not .
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Old 01-10-2013
You can use the ls command to list the files in a directory:
Code:
ls -l /your_directory_name

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Old 01-10-2013
Thanks for ur response..using this command that u provided i can get all the files present in that location.. can i use find command to search my file..can i give all the names of these 74 files in one command and find it ?
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Old 01-10-2013
You could put the file names your looking for in a file(1 on each line) and then use the find command to find them:

Code:
for f in `cat my_file_names.txt`
do
  find / -name "$f" 2>/dev/null
done

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Old 01-11-2013
This means running find 74 times. Why not ls them all and then grep with the names file:
Code:
ls -l /your_directory_name | grep -f my_file_names.txt

You could add a wc (word count) to check the 74, or you could compare the output to your names file to identify single missing files.
Actually, this will take ls's output as the pattern file and print the missing files for you:
Code:
ls|grep -vf - names

Last edited by RudiC; 01-11-2013 at 05:00 AM.. Reason: quick solution added
 
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