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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh script find command not printing any results Post 302934452 by seekryts15 on Saturday 7th of February 2015 07:29:38 AM
Old 02-07-2015
Wrench ksh script find command not printing any results
Hello,
Hitting a wall on this one. When at the command prompt it works fine:
Code:
# find /home/testuser -name 'PAINT*canvasON.txt'
/home/testuser/PAINT_canvasON.txt

# pwd
/home/testuser

# ls -l PAINT*canvasON.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     user              23 Feb 07 02:58 PAINT_canvasON.txt

But when I try to put it in a script I get no output. Here's the test script I've been using.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

printf "Enter type: "
read A

find /home/testuser  -name '$A*canvasON.txt'

Also, my main goal is to create a script that will ask the user to input a type then search the /home/testuser directory for a file that has that type in the file name. If it does then it will cat the output of that file. If it doesnt then warn the user it doesnt exist.

Here's an example of what I would like to accomplish but it doesnt work:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

printf "Enter type: "
read A

if [[ -n "$(find /home/testuser -name '$A*canvasON.txt')" ]]; then
  cat /home/testuser/"$A"_canvasON.txt
else
  echo "file does not exist"
fi

Ideal output if file exists:
Code:
Enter type: PAINT
This is the contents of PAINT_canvasON.txt

Ideal output if file does NOT exist:
Code:
Enter type: DUST
file does not exist

Please help, thanks
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

locale::script

Locale::Script(3perl)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				     Locale::Script(3perl)

NAME

       Locale::Script - standard codes for script identification

SYNOPSIS

	  use Locale::Script;

	  $script  = code2script('phnx');		      # 'Phoenician'
	  $code    = script2code('Phoenician'); 	      # 'Phnx'
	  $code    = script2code('Phoenician',
				 LOCALE_CODE_NUMERIC);	      # 115

	  @codes   = all_script_codes();
	  @scripts = all_script_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Script" module provides access to standards codes used for identifying scripts, such as those defined in ISO 15924.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default ISO 15924
       four-letter codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying scripts. The ones currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is a set of four-letter (capitalized) codes from ISO 15924 such as 'Phnx' for Phoenician.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_SCRIPT_ALPHA".

	   The Zxxx, Zyyy, and Zzzz codes are not used.

	   This is the default code set.

       numeric
	   This is a set of three-digit numeric codes from ISO 15924 such as 115 for Phoenician.

	   This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_SCRIPT_NUMERIC".

ROUTINES

       code2script ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       script2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       script_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_script_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_script_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::rename_script  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::delete_script  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Script::delete_script_alias  ( NAME )
       Locale::Script::rename_script_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::add_script_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Script::delete_script_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
       Locale::Constants
       http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/
	   Home page for ISO 15924.

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE).
	  Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers
	  Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-26						     Locale::Script(3perl)
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