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I use ls -la as a matter of habit. LOL. However, it had no effect on my results.

OK. I see the difference now.
So, if I don't expect and/or want to list any files starting with a ., I can safely omit the .*.txt and .*.prg parts. Right ?

Thanks Don for the reply.

If I put just a ; after the first 2 lines, then it works like a charm. Here is my final version of the command:

for dir in $(find . -type d -name 'pro*'); do ls -l...

Noted Don. I will provide OS/Shell for any future posts. For now, I am using SunOS unix 5.10 Generic_150400-30 and shell is K Shell.

Your suggested code appears to be for use in a script file....

Tried that. My Find does not support "path".

>find . -path ./prog\* \( -iname "*.txt" -o -iname "*.prg" \)
find: bad option -path
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list


Please use CODE...

I want to use Find command to find directories that have certain name and them find files in that directory having only some extensions. So far, I have come up with this command to list directories...

Thank you kshji.

I took a shortcut and placed the function in .profile itself. Like this:

ff()
{
find . -name $1
}

That seems to work. Do I need to create a separate file...

Thanks RudiC for the reply.

So, if I understand correctly, the $1 in this case does nothing. When I issue the command "ff x*", it is expanded as "find . $1 x*" where the system looks for any...

Please forgive me if this is too stupid a question as I am fairly new to scripting.

I have an alias in my .profile (ksh) like this:
alias ff='find . -name $1'

The idea is to find all files...

Thanks fubaya for the clarification.
"ls -u" worked for me as the numbers in the files I am working with have a four digit number that will always stay as four digit. So, I will not have any issues...

Absolutely. That did it. Thanks a lot.......

Folks here are real gurus. They have answers to just about anything.
For someone like me who is totally new to Unix, this forum is a bliss.

I am sure it has been answered in some form or the other in this forum but trust me I have spent last couple of hours looking for an answer but can't find it.

I want to do a very simple operation...

Excellent. Got it working the way I wanted. I put the alias al in .cshrc file as suggested and then 3 more aliases using the $target as the dynamic value. Here is what I did:

alias al 'set...

Curleb: I would prefer to leave it 'sticky' rather than typing the filename every time I run the alias. The ratio of running alias to defining alias is 50:1. So, I will save myself typing the...

Thanks curleb. That link provided some very useful info for me. However, let me redefine what I am trying to accomplish.

1. Set up a c shell script named (let us say al) with the following three...

Do you want me to post my .cshrc file here ?

Target file ? You mean myfile.log etc. Yes, I do have permission to those files.

Putting these aliases in .cshrc file is a great suggestion and it should work as I do have whole bunch of aliases...

I don't have problem executing other scripts. Only the alias command is not working.

Setting it on login kinda defeats the purpose. This is a script that I want to run on the fly passing a...

Tried that. Still no go. Same message.

Tried that. I get the message "Permission Denied".

. ./al [Enter]
/idn/app/bin/.: Permission Denied.

I don't know what that means.

I am new to unix and therefore I did a lot of reading before posting. So please, if this has been answered before, forgive me for re-posting and point me to the right place for the answer. I have...

In am using PC running Windows XP SP2 emulating a terminal and connecting to my company's unix system via Telnet.

I checked the $TERM variable and it appears to have been set to "ansi".

I am...

Methyl.

Thanks a lot for very detailed reply. That worked.

However, would you know by any chance why the syntax in my first post did not work.

Anyone else can help me out here. I would really like to customize Vi so I don't have to ftp files back and forth to windows for editing.

Thanks.

Thanks Methyl for the reply. I tried without the colon, but still no go. This is what I get when I issue :map command in Vi Editor:

:map
up ^[[A k
down ^[[B j
left ^[[D h...