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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Help-prompt for path and take this as input in find command Post 302155205 by bsandeep_80 on Thursday 3rd of January 2008 06:16:13 AM
Old 01-03-2008
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

Last edited by bsandeep_80; 01-03-2008 at 07:22 AM..
 

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NAME
mvdir - move a directory SYNOPSIS
dir newdir DESCRIPTION
moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it. dir must be an existing directory. If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir. Otherwise, newdir must be an existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir. In this case, dir is moved and becomes a subdirectory of newdir. The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory. refuses to move dir if the path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir. Such cases are not allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited. does not allow directory to be moved. Only users who have appropriate privileges can use EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP. SEE ALSO
cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mvdir(1M)
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