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I'll try that - should be able to do it tomorrow - have a little bit of a lax schedule then.

Unfortunately, I can't show the source code of somepgm - I do not have it. But one example of somepgm is a data file utility which reformats a binary file into a flat text file. When this utility is...

Occasionally I see this in ksh scripts:

somepgm >| someoutputfile

This appears to be redirecting the output of somepgm to the file someoutputfile, and it does do so.

But when you remove...

Ok guys, here's what I've ended up with, many thanks to you, because this works great:


#!/bin/ksh
#- cpmany.ksh
#
# Used to copy regular files from one directory to another
# when the...

Perhaps I should first verify that the parameters are each quoted before I execute the find cmd - if they are not, I could terminate the script with an error message.

So I'd need to look for...

I see - but is there no way to do this without requiring the double quotes around the parameter passed to the script?

I can see people often forgetting to double-quote their parameter, with...

Hi Filipe,

When I use the double quotes around the positional paramter like this ("$2") I get wierd results when I run the script.

For example, if I have a directory with the following files...

jlliagre,

Your answers make perfect sense! This is very much appreciated. I'll study the "find" command.

This was sort of 'wigging me out' until you explained matters. Here in this script we...

Hi,

I discovered the following single-line script works very well to cp a large number of files from a source directory to a destination directory while avoiding the "argument list too large"...