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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with find, xargs and awk Post 302711423 by Sandhya Harsh on Saturday 6th of October 2012 07:56:57 AM
Old 10-06-2012
Data Help with find, xargs and awk

Hi,

I want to find some files and then search for some lines in it with a particular pattern and then write those lines into a file. To do this I am using something like this from command prompt directly.
Code:
cd /mdat/BVG
find -name "stmt.*cl" -newer temp.txt | xargs -i awk '/BVG-/{print}' {} > /home/sandhya/list.txt
#awk -f BVG-stmt.awk /home/sandhya/list.txt > /home/sandhya/BVG-Statement-detail.txt


This works absolutely fine. But I have lots of directories in mdat and I have to do the same action in all of it. So I decided to write a shell script so that it works for all. Below is the shell script code for it. But the problem is that when I execute the above commands from shell script, I do not get the desired output. Can anybody help me out?

*****************************************************
Shell Script
*****************************************************
Code:
DESTDIR=/home/sandhya
CLIENT_NAME=

while [ -z "${CLIENT_NAME}" ]
do
    echo "Enter Client Short Name :(<Ctrl>-C, <Enter> to cancel): \c"
    read CLIENT_NAME
done

CLIENT_NAME=`echo $CLIENT_NAME | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

if [ -d /mdat/${CLIENT_NAME} ]
    then
    echo "Client is valid!!"
else
    echo "\n Client ${CLIENT_NAME} does not exist. Try again!!\n"
    exit 1
fi

cd /mdat/${CLIENT_NAME}

LNAME=${DESTDIR}/list.txt
#SDNAME=${DESTDIR}/${CLIENT_NAME}-Statement-detail.txt
#AWKF=${CLIENT_NAME}-stmt.awk

find -name "stmt.*cl" -newer temp.txt | xargs -i awk '/${CLIENT_NAME}-/{print}' {} > ${LNAME}
#awk -f ${AWKF} ${LNAME} > ${SDNAME}

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Note: The contents of awk file is same only difference is the pattern BVG replaced with other appropriate client names/dirs.
OS: QNX 4.25

Thanks in advance for your help.

Sandhya.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.

Last edited by radoulov; 10-06-2012 at 09:04 AM..
 

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