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Thanks for your comments Don :)

I actually do use SASWORK_LIST_BEFORE again. The script deletes the orphaned SAS work directories and afterwards it runs sdiff on SASWORK_LIST_BEFORE with...

Actually you and Don are right.. single quotes within double quotes are not causing any error.

I must have done somethign wrong the first time when I tested and got the error about not finding...

Don,

Please see below the complete do while loop


SCRIPT_DIR=/u/sasp/scripts/purge_clean

SASWORK_LIST_SASWORK=$SCRIPT_DIR/saswork_list_saswork

SASWORK=$1

cd $SASWORK
ls -ltr |...

:) Thanks Made in Germany and Carlos for your input... Now I understand what Carlos meant... Yes echoing the $line works ... That was confusing me as why the why loop goes into the awk subshell...you...

Actually the script I showed was only a part of a big script. In the main script I have another egrep filter to keep only the directories that match the pattern of SAS work directories, in the ls -l...

Thanks very much Don.

The script you gave did the job. I am not concerned about the blank spacees in dir/file names because in my final script I filter the ls -l output using egrep, to keep only...

Using ksh on AIX what I am trying to do is to read the ls -l output from a file in a do while loop line by line. Extract the user name(3rd field) and the directory/file name(9th field) using awk and...