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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which(1) User Commands which(1)
NAME
which - locate a command; display its pathname or alias
SYNOPSIS
which [filename...]
DESCRIPTION
which takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be executed had these names been given as commands. Each argument is
expanded if it is aliased, and searched for along the user's path. Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file.
FILES
~/.cshrc source of aliases and path values
/usr/bin/which
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), attributes(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
A diagnostic is given for names which are aliased to more than a single word, or if an executable file with the argument name was not found
in the path.
NOTES
which is not a shell built-in command; it is the UNIX command, /usr/bin/which
BUGS
Only aliases and paths from ~/.cshrc are used; importing from the current environment is not attempted. Must be executed by csh(1), since
only csh knows about aliases.
To compensate for ~/.cshrc files in which aliases depend upon the prompt variable being set, which sets this variable to NULL. If the
~/.cshrc produces output or prompts for input when prompt is set, which may produce some strange results.
SunOS 5.10 26 Sep 1992 which(1)