1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

when i use the following command find / -name '*.*' -exec grep -il 'text' {} \; I can redirect the errors to /dev/null. This happens only in ksh but not in csh. the 2>/dev/null is not working in csh. Can you some one suggest an alternative for this in csh ? (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi experts, I have a shell script (korn shell on aix) where I am giving find command with file options which are read from a configuration file. For some reason I am getting an error find: 0652-017. I have put set -x in the shell script and the command looks okay. If I cut it and paste it in the... (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a script that has the following command: find /home/user -name test.dat The script works as desired when running normally. However, when I run the script preceding it with 'sh', it fails. Is there something I need to account for when preceding the execution of the script with 'sh'? (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am running shell scripts on windows using Cygwin tool. In my shell scripts, i want to add an error check, that verify whether a certain command is available or not. For example if SED comamnd is not available in Cygwin, then it should exit with error message. How do i write such shell... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to execute the below in Ksh (telnet) find ./request.txt -mmin -30 It says find: bad option -mmin What i am trying to do is by using find command i am checking wheather the file request.txt is there for 30 minutes or not Please help (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, dirs.conf fine contains below data /a/b/c/dir1|50 /a/b/c/dir2|50 /a/b/c/dir3|50 In a shell script I do as below while read file_rec do dir_name=`echo "${file_rec}" | cut -d "|" -f 1` purge_days=`echo "${file_rec}" | cut -d "|" -f 2` if then... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all, Something strange going on with a shell script I'm writing. It's trying to write a list of files that it finds in a given directory to another file. But I also have a skip list so matching files that are in that skip list should be, well uhm, skipped :) Here's the code of my... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Please i need an explanation for the following statements ref_file=/tmp/cleanfiles export ref_file touch `TZ=WAT+2 date "+%Y%m%d%H%M"` $ref_file find . ! -name . -prune -type f ! -newer $ref_file -exec store_file.sh {} \; (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a shell script (.sh) and I want to pass a parameter value to the awk command but I am getting exception, please assist. diff=$1$2.diff id=$2 new=new_$diff echo "My id is $1" echo "I want to sync for user account $id" ##awk command I am using is as below cat $diff | awk... (2 Replies)

10. HP-UX

Hi All, I am using below snippet to search for a string (read from a file 'searchstring.out') in all locations (/) and then iterate over the files found to write the locations and the respective owner to an output file. However, this doesn't work as I believe the find command doesn't exit's... (11 Replies)