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08-16-2013

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To quote or not

My question is, "Do I not understand, or is my information out of date?"
I am trying to just be a student, rtfm'ing. I am working on my work systems. Is it simply that the book was printed in 2002 and a lot has changed since then, or did I miss something?

Working in Korn Shell.
I have been reading O'Reilly "Learning the Korn Shell." (Which deals with ksh93)
We have Version M-11/16/88f, not 93.

I was reading about quoting, and the book cited an example using the 'find' command. It states that I need to quote wildcards used in the find command. It also says I need to use "-print" to see the results.

I use the find command a lot. I have neither been quoting/escaping, nor using -print, but I get what I am looking for:

Code:

root@s0ms3rv3r:/ >find / -name *dsmerr*
/etc/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/.ssh/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/tsm/scripts/dsmerror.log
/sys/logs/tsm/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/clscripts/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/hacmp/bak/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/hacmp/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/scripts/archive/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/scripts/dsmerror.log
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmerror.log
/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmerror.log
root@s0ms3rv3r:/ >set -o emacs
root@s0ms3rv3r:/ >Version M-11/16/88f
root@s0ms3rv3r:/ >find / -name '*dsmerr*'
/etc/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/.ssh/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/dsmerror.log
/home/s0m3uz3r/tsm/scripts/dsmerror.log
/sys/logs/tsm/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/clscripts/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/hacmp/bak/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/hacmp/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/scripts/archive/dsmerror.log
/usr/local/adm/scripts/dsmerror.log
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmerror.log
/usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmerror.log
root@s0ms3rv3r:/ >
 
 
root@4nothrs3rv3r:/ >ls -ltr $(find / -name *dsmerr*)
-rwxrwx--- 1 root system 1450 Apr 28 2003 /usr/local/adm/clscripts/dsmerror.log
-rw-r----- 1 root system 1068 Jan 25 2007 /usr/local/adm/scripts/archive/dsmerror.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 161 Apr 22 2010 /usr/lpp/tivoli.tsm.client.hsm.jfs2/dsmerror.log
-rw------- 1 root system 24112 Aug 14 13:17 /sys/logs/tsm/dsmerror.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 578 Aug 14 13:34 /sys/logs/tsm/orasched-dsmerr.log
root@4nothrs3rv3r:/ >ls -ltr $(find / -name '*dsmerr*')
-rwxrwx--- 1 root system 1450 Apr 28 2003 /usr/local/adm/clscripts/dsmerror.log
-rw-r----- 1 root system 1068 Jan 25 2007 /usr/local/adm/scripts/archive/dsmerror.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 161 Apr 22 2010 /usr/lpp/tivoli.tsm.client.hsm.jfs2/dsmerror.log
-rw------- 1 root system 24112 Aug 14 13:17 /sys/logs/tsm/dsmerror.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 578 Aug 14 13:34 /sys/logs/tsm/orasched-dsmerr.log

I am not being deliberately thick. I am inclined to assume, "old book, old shell, it works how it works, move on..."
But, I have hamstrung myself in the past by carrying around half-misunderstood concepts. Quoting and regex are things that are fuzzy to me, and I want to get them straight.

Last edited by Scott; 08-16-2013 at 11:56 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags

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