05-31-2016
So, where do we start? Being an electronics engineer, is the assumption correct that you know what a specification is? Loosely phrased, the description of a target (contents, shape, structure, timing) and the collection of basic data (setup, sample input, ...) to start from, constraints and/or exceptions and/or boundary conditions, tools available (or forbidden), sometimes accompanied by ideas or even rules/instructions on how to get there.
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The target: Paraphrased from your post#1: A list of directories with the information "contains valid/invalid files". Please refine to taste.
The basics: A number of subdirectories in your home directory (definition varies in above posts) with files to be searched for keywords. Please be very aware that we don't know anything about your computer/(file-) system/directory structure/anything. So some samples might help!
Additional info needed:
- What flexibiltiy is required?
- Do the subdirs change a lot?
- Are there more subdirs?
- - How to define the interesting ones?
- - How to exclude the others?
- - Use a "white list" (= config file)?
- Do the keywords change?
- - How to provide?
- - Are there more than one keyword per subdir?
- config files to be used?
- - one? many?
- - structure of the config file(s)
- - up to the service provider?
Constraints/exceptions/boundary conditions:
- not (yet) known
The tools: available *nix commands/versions (your Solaris have may some restrictions that other OS don't have)
- pure shell (which do you use?)
- text processing commands (sed, awk, perl, ...)
- up to the service provider?
I'll stop here with this non-exhaustive list. Feel free to complete and answer.
You now may say: "What an immense effort for a minor task like a mere 'file list for 7 directories' ". I'd request you to ponder the overall time it took for the two of us to type posts #1 to #10 compared to you making up your mind and put together a small set of basic data, stringent rules, and a precise, distinct result, with which a satisfactory solution would have been proposed within hours if not minutes.
I'd propose you take a step back and try to rephrase your request considering at least part of above...
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