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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to retrieve a file from specific path using unix script? Post 302541384 by ironmonkey555 on Sunday 24th of July 2011 10:16:00 AM
Old 07-24-2011
MySQL

hi,

You have specified your target directory different from the directory in which script is present...


Code:
#!/bin/ksh
PATH=/full/path/to/your/target/directory
cd $PATH   #go in that directory
filename=$( ls -lrt | tail -1 | awk '{print $7}') #variable contains name of latest file
file_content=$(cat $filename) #this variable contains content of that file...
echo $file_content #to see the output

#your code.....=>
if [ -d $PATH ]    # I didn't understand your purpose of checking the directory here...
then
  echo "is a directory"
  filename=$(ls -ltr | tail -1)
fi


Regards,
ironmonkey... Smilie
 

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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port] sieveshell --help DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress. The following commands are recognized: list list scripts on server. put <filename> upload script to server. get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout delete <name> delete script. activate <name> activate script. deactivate deactivate all scripts. OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials. -a authname, --authname=authname The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user). -r realm, --realm=realm The realm to attempt authentication in. -e script, --exec=script Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done. REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work in progress. AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>. perl v5.16.3 2014-06-10 SIEVESHELL(1)
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