01-30-2003
When you -exec the perl script, it's done on the first file it finds, vaditerm.dt when it finds it, not when it has read the entire directory. Then when it continues, the next file it finds is vaditerm.dt.bak, which your -exec then operates on. Next is vaditerm.dt.bak.bak ...
One solution is to pass off the results of find to xargs; xargs then runs your perl program. If you want it to do one file at a time, there's an option to xargs to tell it so.
find . -type f | xargs perl -i.bak ...
Another solution is to tell find to ignore *.bak:
find . -type f \! -name '*.bak' -exec perl ...
The xargs version (if you process more than one file at a time) uses fewer process slots and will run faster, which may be important if you have a lot of files and/or your files are long. The xargs version will overwrite existing .bak files if they are physically in the directory after the primary files. Combining the two solutions, i.e.,
find . -type f \! -name '*.bak' | xargs perl ...
will certainly overwrite existing .bak files.
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passwd_export
passwd_export(1m) passwd_export(1m)
NAME
passwd_export - Creates local password and group files
SYNOPSIS
passwd_export [-d dir_name] [-m max_entries] [-h[elp]] [-n] [-s] [-v] [-x]
OPTIONS
The name of the directory to store the password, group, and organization files created by passwd_export. If you do not enter a directory
name, the files are stored in the /etc directory. Display help information. Ignore passwd_override and group_override file entries.
Without this option, passwd_export applies the override entries from both files to the local password and group files it creates. The max-
imum number of entries that can be stored in the local files. Sort the local password and group file entries by UNIX number. If you do
not specify this option, the entries are in order as they are retrieved from the registry. Run in verbose mode. Do not create entries for
users with OMIT as their encrypted password in the passwd_override and group_override files. See the passwd_override and group_override
reference pages for further details about omitting users.
DESCRIPTION
The dceshared/bin/passwd_export command creates local password and group files from registry data. These files are used when the network
registry is unavailable and by programs that use the original UNIX passwd and group interfaces instead of the DCE interfaces. Use
passwd_export to keep these local files consistent with the registry database.
When passwd_export runs, it makes backup copies of the current password and group files, if they exist. The files are named, respectively,
passwd.bak and group.bak.
By default, the backups are stored and the new files created in the /etc directory. You can override the default by supplying a directory
name with the -d option.
Running passwd_export
The passwd_export command is commonly run with an entry in /usr/lib/crontab. For example, to update the files every hour, the entry is 0 *
* * * dceshared/bin/passwd_export In large network environments, it is a good idea to stagger the times passwd_export is run.
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Files: group(5), passwd(5), passwd_override(5), group_override(5)
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