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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help turning pseudocode into ksh script Post 302858759 by Leedor on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 10:30:15 AM

10-01-2013

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Help turning pseudocode into ksh script

Hi gurus,

My boss has asked me to create a unix script to check header files vs data files and to send an email in case of any failure.

I have very little unix scripting experience and it was now long ago so I'm a bit concerned I wont be able to turn this around by end of day tomorrow.

I've taken his requirements and turned it into a kind of pseudocode to help me design the script but now the exact Unix commands to use for each piece will require a lot of googling and testing on my part.

I am hoping that some kind person with years of experience will be able to turn this into ksh script for me in a matter of minutes

Code:

--------------- Main Procedure
Go to temp folder
Check for a header file matching mask: F57DWHDR.yyyymmddhhmmss.CSV
    If no header matching that mask <FAIL1>
    Else <CHECKHEADER>
<MOVEFILES>
--------------- Sub Procedures

<FAILn>
Email failure

<CHECKHEADER>
Check for all records ending in '*' (wc -l vs grep | wc -l?)
    If not equal <FAIL2>
    Else <CHECKFILES>

<CHECKFILES>
(LOOP THROUGH ALL LINES)
Read line: Filename, count (cut -c?)
Check for file existance
    If not exist <FAIL3>
    Else <CHECKCOUNT>
(ENDLOOP)

<CHECKCOUNT>
Compare readcount to filereccount
    if not equal <FAIL4>

<MOVEFILES>
Move file to current area already used by existing code

Here is an example header file, fixed width (50 C filename, 10 C count, ' *) = 62 chars.

Code:

F4211OPN20130916041521.CSV                        0000041216 *
F4201OPN20130916041558.CSV                        0000010212 *
F574211OPN20130916041652.CSV                      0000040874 *
F574201OPN20130916041703.CSV                      0000010212 *
F57DWHDR20130916041720.CSV                        0000000005 *

Any help with this would be ever so much appreciated, but if you all have better things to do I wont be offended and will crack on with this tomorrow morning!

Leedor

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times

times(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          times(1)

NAME

       times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       times

   ksh
       times

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.

   ksh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.

       On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:

       1.  Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.

       2.  I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.

       3.  Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.

       4.  Words,  following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
           able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation  are  not
           performed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)

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