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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers To quote or not Post 302844085 by g.j.huebschman on Friday 16th of August 2013 10:53:45 AM
Old 08-16-2013
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My question is, "Do I not understand, or is my information out of date?"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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NAME
binlog.conf - binlogd configuration file SYNOPSIS
event_code.priority destination Where: Are the numeric codes specified in binlog.h and the binlogd(8) reference page. An aster- isk (*) specifies that all events should be selected. The code dumpfile Specifies the recovery of the kernel binary event log buffer from a crash dump. A severity level cannot be specified. Filters selected events as severe, high, and low. An asterisk (*) specifies that all events should be selected. A local file pathname to a log file, or a remote system hostname for remote logging of events. DESCRIPTION
The /etc/binlog.conf file is a system file that enables you to configure or filter events that are to be logged by the binary error logger, binlogd. The binlogd daemon ignores blank lines and lines that begin with an octothorpe (#). You can specify # as the first character in a line to include comments in the file or to disable an entry. If you want the binlogd daemon to use a configuration file other than the default, specify the file name with the following command: # bin- logd -f config_file Note that EVM subscribes to binlog events by default, and any configuration options you select will affect what events are available to EVM. You can filter and select binlog events using EVM utilities, as described in the EVM(5) reference page. EXAMPLES
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