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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Recursive find and store Post 302292603 by ultimatix on Saturday 28th of February 2009 09:48:05 PM
Old 02-28-2009
Bug Recursive find and store
I HAVE A TEXT FILE CONTAINING THE VALUES

1.CPP
2.CPP
3.CPP
4.CPP
5.CPP
6.CPP

I WANT TO TAKE EACH .CPP AND USE THE FIND COMMAND TO FIND THE LATEST VERSION OF THE FOLDER IN WHICH IT IS PRESENT.

HOW DO I IMPLEMENT IT IN A WHILE LOOP

I TRIED SOMETHING LIKE THIS

WHILE
CAT FILENAME |

READ LINE .....

BUT I AM UNABLE TO PASS THE VALUE OF CLASSNAME IN FIND COMMAND.

FIND . -NAME CLASSNAME |SORT

PLEASE HELP

SECONDLY

I have a text file containing values as

./V02345CS/1.CPP
./V02340CS/2.CPP
./V02349CS/3.CPP
./V02348CS/4.CPP
./V02347CS/5.CPP
./V02346CS/6.CPP

FIRST I WANT TO SEPARTELY STORE THE VALUES V02346CS (FOLDER NAME) AND 6.CPP (CLASS NAME) IN A VARIABLE AND UPDATE A ORACLE DATABASE TABLE.

ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED

REGARDS

---ULTIMATIX...
 

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ifnames

IFNAMES(1)							   User Commands							IFNAMES(1)

NAME

       ifnames - Extract CPP conditionals from a set of files

SYNOPSIS

       ifnames [OPTION] ...  [FILE] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Scan all of the C source FILES (or the standard input, if none are given) and write to the standard output a sorted list of all the identi-
       fiers that appear in those files in `#if', `#elif', `#ifdef', or `#ifndef' directives.  Print each identifier on  a  line,  followed  by  a
       space-separated list of the files in which that identifier occurs.

       -h, --help
	      print this help, then exit

       -V, --version
	      print version number, then exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David J. MacKenzie and Paul Eggert.

       Copyright  2002	Free  Software	Foundation, Inc.  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not
       even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.

       ifnames (GNU Autoconf) 2.57

SEE ALSO

       autoconf(1), automake(1), autoreconf(1), autoupdate(1), autoheader(1), autoscan(1), config.guess(1), config.sub(1), ifnames(1), libtool(1).

       The full documentation for ifnames is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and ifnames programs	are  properly  installed  at  your
       site, the command

	      info ifnames

       should give you access to the complete manual.

ifnames 							   December 2002							IFNAMES(1)
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