Thank you apmcd47 for your helpful reply. I've managed to get the following code working to identify what I need:
But what could I add to this code to report that no file was found if a bootstrap_cookbooks_version_* file does not exist?
Thank you.
If you use my second example you could just add a second echo thus:
In this case the string file does not exist is printed instead of the word red or green. Alternatively look into turning that echo into the instruction you actually want:
Andrew
The purpose of those comands are to find the newest file in a directory acvrdind to system date, and it has to be recursively found in each directory.
The problem is that i want to list in a long format every found file, but the commands i use produce unexpected results ,so the output lists in a... (5 Replies)
I have the following statement in script:
find ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${BTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN2} -print | while read file; do
...
done
When there are no files located by the find comand it returns:
"find: bad status-- /home/rnitcher/test/....." to the command line
How do I get control in... (3 Replies)
I want the output of the find command to be printed and also the total files found by it. Can someone help in this.
Obviously $ find . -type f | wc -l will not output the files found but only the count. I want both. There can be millions and trillions of files so dont want the output of find... (3 Replies)
Hi,
i'm currently writing a script which tidys up old files. When using the find command I found that some files were not being listed
/export/home/ops***/test: ls -l processed
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ops*** ****** 0 Apr 20 11:53 test99
/export/home/ops***/test: ls -l
total 4... (9 Replies)
Trying to locate files less than xx days old, throughout all directories/subdirectories, but excluding certain types of directories and files.
The directories I want to search all contain the same characteristic (dbdef, pldef, ghdef, etc), and there are subdirectories within that I need to... (2 Replies)
Hi, I am new in scripting, and I am currently working on a script that will look for other files in a certain directory and exclude some file type.
this works fine:Find_File2Exclude=`find ${paths} -maxdepth 1 -type f \( ! -iname '*.out' ! -iname '*.auc' ! -iname '*.cps' ! -iname '*.log' ! -iname... (4 Replies)
Hello Forum,
I'm using the following command to find all inactive kernels installed on my RHEL server:
$ rpm -qa | grep '^kernel-' |grep -vE `uname -r`
but the result is in two lines:
kernel-3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-1062.el7.x86_64
Is there a one line command I can... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: greavette
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)