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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script help Post 302418693 by DallasT on Wednesday 5th of May 2010 05:36:07 AM
Old 05-05-2010
I apologize, let me explain.

Your correction on my script does almost what i wanted it to do. But since there are many soft links its searches (~30), when it does not find a current file it only says "File Not Found". This output does not tell the reader where to search for this outdated file.

All I want it to do is to have a some error detection mechanism to alert when:

1. when the directory isnt there (but since it searches only high level "/home/student/mylinks". im not sure how would it know if a soft link is missing?), the should be an error telling that the directory is missing

2. if the file isnt current date, i should know which soft link has the old file. Instead of just getting "File not found", it should say for example, "File not found: /home/student/mylinks/dir1"
 

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set_link

set link(1m)															      set link(1m)

NAME

       set link - Changes the value of a modifiable, single-valued attribute of a soft link

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp set link link-name attribute-name = attribute-value

ARGUMENTS

       The  full  name	of  the  soft link.  The name of the attribute to be modified.	Specify only one attribute at a time.  See Description for
       valid attribute names.  The value of a particular attribute.

DESCRIPTION

       The set link command changes the value of a modifiable, single-valued attribute of a soft link.	The following are valid attributes: Speci-
       fies the full name of the directory, object entry, or other soft link to which the soft link points.  Specifies a timeout value after which
       the soft link is either checked or deleted.  The timeout value contains both an expiration time and an  extension  time.  If  a	soft  link
       expires and its target entry is deleted, the soft link is deleted. If the soft link still points to an existing entry, its life is extended
       by the expiration time. Specify expiration-time in the format yyyy-mm-dd-hh:mm:ss (year-month-day-hour:minute:second).  Specify	extension-
       time in the format ddd-hh:mm:ss (day-hour:minute:second).

   Privilege Required
       You must have write permission to the soft link.

NOTE

       This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.

EXAMPLE

       The  following  command	redirects a soft link named /.:/admin/work_disk from its current destination name, /.:/admin/work_disk01, to a new
       destination name, /.:/admin/work_disk03.  cdscp> set link /.:/admin/work_disk CDS_LinkTarget = /.:/admin/work_disk03

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: create link(1m), delete link(1m), list link(1m), show link(1m)

																      set link(1m)
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