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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script to read configuration file Post 49587 by philip_dba on Monday 5th of April 2004 08:15:18 PM
Old 04-05-2004
Question script to read configuration file
Hi,

I would like to write a Korn shell script which will remove files older than a certain date. In my script, it will read a configuration file with the following entries:

# <directory> <filename wildcard>
#
/home/philip/log *.log
/home/philip/log1 delete-me*.log


The cleanup script will then process the configuration file line by line and read the directory path (DIRPATH) and filetype (FILETYPE).

Then i will have a find statement

find $DIRPATH -name $FILETYPE -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm \{} \;


Below is the code segment:



cat $CONFIG | while read LINE
do
case $LINE in
\#*) ;;
'') ;;
*)
mydir="`echo $LINE | awk '{ print $1 }'"
filetype="`echo $LINE | awk '{ print $2 }'"
if [ -z $mydir ] || [ -z $filetype ]; then
echo "empty values for directory or file type"
exit 1
fi
find $mydir -name $filetype -mtime +${PURGE_DAYS} -exec /bin/rm \{} \;

;;
esac




When i run the script, at the time when it read the configuration file, it expanded the filetype variable to (1.log 2.log 3.log etc). when the program got to the find command , it just failed.

How do i make it to store *.log in the filetype variable so that i could pass it to find command?

Thanks in advance

philip
 

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kclog

kclog(1M)																 kclog(1M)

NAME

       kclog - manage kernel configuration log file

SYNOPSIS

       config] string] type] name] [count]
       comment

DESCRIPTION

       is  the	administrative command for the HP-UX kernel configuration log file.  The log file is automatically maintained by all of the kernel
       configuration commands (and Any change to any kernel configuration gets logged to this log file, which is located at Note that this file is
       a  plain text file which can be viewed and manipulated using standard Unix file management commands; exists simply for convenience in find-
       ing particular log file entries.

       Under normal usage, prints the last count entries in the log file.  When one of the options is specified, prints  the  last  count  entries
       that match the specified criteria.  If count is not specified, it defaults to 1.

   Options
       will print all entries matching criteria.  If this option is not specified,
		      will only print the last count entries that match the specified criteria.

       will print only log file entries describing changes to the saved
		      kernel  configuration  named config.  If this option is not specified, will print log file entries describing changes to any
		      saved or running kernel configuration.

       will not print any entries.  Instead,
		      will create a new entry, as if a kernel configuration change had been made, containing the specified comment.   This  option
		      is only allowed for users with appropriate privileges.

       will print only log file entries that contain the given
		      string.

       will print only log file entries that refer to a configuration object
		      (module or tunable) of the given name.

       will print only log file entries that refer to configuration objects
		      of the specified type: or

RETURN VALUE

       returns zero for success.  It returns non-zero and prints a diagnostic message if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

       To see the last three entries in the log:
       To see the last entry for the tunable
       To see the last five entries for module changes:
       To see all entries for module changes:
       To see the last entry mentioning Aberdeen:
WARNINGS

       The format of the log file may be changed without notice.

       Some configuration changes can be made without using the kernel configuration commands.	No log file entries are made for such changes.

       The log file should not be manually edited.  Doing so may cause to behave unpredictably.

SEE ALSO

       kcmodule(1M), kconfig(1M), kctune(1M), kconfig(5).

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