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I am using Korn Shell to process one file at a time. In a recieve directory i have mutiple file but would like to only copy one file at a time. Here i wrote a following code but i am getting find: can not stat error on following line. File exit in the directory. Currently i have 777 privelage to all the directory.

# formulate the source filename, allowing only one file at a time
SOURCE_FILENAME=`find $RECD_DIR/PG*.DAT | awk 'NR == 1 { print $1 }'`

Here is the whole script

#!/bin/ksh
#===========================================================================
# Program......: $XXX_TOP/bin/E_INTCTL
# Date Who Comments SCR #
# --------- ------ ------------------------------------------------- ------
# 28-AUG-08 AA Initial release
#
#
#=============================================================================
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
. $HOME/.profile >/dev/null
# Define directory shortcuts
INTERFACE_TOP=$XXX_TOP/interface/GL;export INTERFACE_TOP
RECD_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/receive;export RECD_DIR
TMP_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/temp;export TMP_DIR
REJECTED_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/rejected;export REJECTED_DIR
SQL_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/sql;export SQL_DIR
DATA_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/data;export DATA_DIR
ARCH_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/archieve;export ARCH_DIR
LOG_DIR=$INTERFACE_TOP/log;export LOG_DIR

# to start loading copy one file at a time from the $RECD_DIR to $DATA_DIR
# make sure that only data files reside there
echo 'script is starting'
if [ ! -f $TMP_DIR/filelist ]
then
echo 'okay to proceed, no filelist exists'
# create a timestamp
DATE_TIME=`date +\%m\%d\%y_\%H\%M\%S`

# formulate the source filename, allowing only one file at a time
SOURCE_FILENAME=`find $RECD_DIR/PG*.DAT | awk 'NR == 1 { print $1 }'`

# formulate the target filename
TARGET_FILENAME=$DATA_DIR/XXX_INSYNC_GL_GL02_Source.dat

# formulate the archival filename
BACKUP_FILENAME=$ARCH_DIR/XXX_GL02_$DATE_TIME
echo 'Successfully formuate the filename'

# Move the source file into the directory being processed by the UNIX script
# If sucessful, copy the moved file into the archival directory and re-name
#
if [ -s "$SOURCE_FILENAME" ]
then cp $SOURCE_FILENAME $TARGET_FILENAME
chmod 777 $TARGET_FILENAME
# mv $SOURCE_FILENAME $BACKUP_FILENAME
#Copy the file name to newlist
ls $DATA_DIR > $TMP_DIR/newlist
fi
fi
echo 'done script'


Any help is really appreciated.

I figure it out. Find command should be use in this format

SOURCE_FILENAME=`find $RECD_DIR/ -name "PG*.DAT" | awk 'NR == 1 { print $1 }'`

-name was missing from my earlier script. It is working now.