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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with Find command urgent help!! Post 302647367 by sukhdip on Monday 28th of May 2012 05:46:45 AM
Old 05-28-2012
Question Problem with Find command urgent help!!
hi
I used find command to find some file names as per input from user. I used it for current directory. It was working fine. Now I tried with giving some other directory path. Its giving issues.
Here what I tried. Script will take input from user say 1_abc.txt, find the file and print list. if files are not there it will print No Files with this name message.
Finding files in the current Directory.
Code:
echo View Log files;    
echo Enter Log file name;
read -r filename ; find  "$filename"_*.* -type f ! -name ".*" 2>errorlog 
if [ -s errorlog ] ; then echo "No Files with this name"; fi 
echo Press Enter; 
read x;;

Then I tried with some different path, as:
Code:
echo View Log files;    
echo Enter Log file name;
read -r filename ; find /backup/test1/LogFiles/ "$filename"_*.* -type f ! -name ".*" 2>errorlog | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
if [ -s errorlog ] ; then echo "No Files with this name"; fi 
echo Press Enter; 
read x;;

Now what is the problem with above code.
1. Its printing files names with fullpath i.e., /backup/test1/LogFiles/1_abc.txt
This is not required. I need to print only file names.
2. The if statement is always in execution. Its always printing the "No Files with this name" statement.
Simply its not working. I tried to use find with -P -H options but not of use.

Urgent help is needed.
Please help me to make it work.
Thanks,
 

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