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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exclude certain folders Post 302912117 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 6th of August 2014 05:18:06 AM

08-06-2014

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That makes it a little more tricky, but as they say, "Anything is possible."

You can test if a file exists with this:-

Code:

if [ -f filename ]
then
   echo "Found it!"
else
   echo "File is not there."
fi

Does that help? You could set a variable to use in the find as the value assigned to -mtime. I'm still not clear on the process you would want it to take and how you would know where to find the file to make your decision. Can you write out a set of logical steps so we can plan it. If you put the phrases one on a line, then highlight them and press a list button (same icon choice as MS word) it will format it a bit better. To show a loop, just highlight the section and again press the list button of your choice.

This:-

Quote:

[LIST]
[*]List line1
[*]List line2
[*]List line3
[LIST]
[*]2nd line1
[*]2nd line2
[/LIST]
[*]List line4
[/LIST]

.... generates this:-

List line1
List line2
List line3
- 2nd line1
- 2nd line2
List line4

If you can articulate what you need as a set of steps, then I'm sure someone here can help.

Regards,
Robin

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

       This  file is read by sa1(8) and sa2(8) shell scripts from the sysstat's set of tools.  It consists of a sequence of shell variable assign-
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