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I want to find every xml file in XYZ directories under DVLP.

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Then I could use another | xargs to grep...

Yes correct! Thanks!

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Which code is correct? What does that xargs part do?

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I want the file names please?

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Sorry about that!

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The commands are simple. Idk what happened? I installed MKS toolkit on my workstation & ran the code again & it happened on there too. I unstalled & reinstalled MKS & the error was still there...

I only want to find files under each branch of the directory tree inside directories named XYZ and there are multiple XYZ directories?

It show's the files correct files along with all of the details... I don't understand why it won't grab them without the ls -al part When I remove this section. The commands act like they run then...

Thanks I will do!

I need the help! Do to the nature of my job there's only information I can disclose. I do truly need the help! I just tried the find command that just worked from the command line and this is what I...

You're code worked! How or why did it?
D:/home/dv/daa/pt/ae(103) find . -name "aac*.xml" -exec ls -la {} \; -exec grep -l "status" {} \;
-rwxrwxrwa 1 SERVER\user.name xyz\Domain+Users 1400...

My script is suppose to get the files then copy the xml files but the variable is coming up " " and on the screen from the command line it's just returning with no data for the find combo. But I can...

I've got to watch what I post. I work in a sensitive environment. It even takes awhile for the find from the command line to return like it's processing! When it's done I will paste in here from the...

Of course mine used to work also! This is the exact code that I put into the command line & get the error message. find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l "Status" {} \; My syntax is right! I don't...

It didn't work. That's the message on the screen afterwards.find: must specify option after -exec
Usage: find directory ... expression

The find command from the command line won't work with any other command when you use find ... -exec any command

The find part works too from the command line. The just wont work when I put them together.xmlFileNames=$(find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l "Status" {} \; 2>/dev/null) IDK why? I even took off the...

Yes the status is in the first line of the xml files.

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And the grep did work from the command line.

I've only got today to get it running like it use too!

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Ok when I changed my find . -name "*.xml" -exec...

I just need to get the server back working again! The old grep command I used at least worked then....

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Then what do I need to do please in layman terms?

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If I restart the server would that fix my problem?...

How do I get it to work again?

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Can I simply restart the server to get my find to work as usual?

Now even when I rollback the version of my script it doesn't work...And I can see the data is all there...

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The error message when I tried this other code is:
find: non-terminated '-exec' argument list
Usage: find directory ... expression
find w/ grep -F exit code:2
find: non-terminated "-exec'...

'+' didn't work in my statement. It didn't return any data then.

It didn't work Corona688...

I've got 30,000 files to process using xmlFileNames=$(find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l "Status" {} \; 2>/dev/null) The re is in the header of the xml files. Is there a way to grab just the header...