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Old 02-28-2009
Bug Recursive find and store

I HAVE A TEXT FILE CONTAINING THE VALUES

1.CPP
2.CPP
3.CPP
4.CPP
5.CPP
6.CPP

I WANT TO TAKE EACH .CPP AND USE THE FIND COMMAND TO FIND THE LATEST VERSION OF THE FOLDER IN WHICH IT IS PRESENT.

HOW DO I IMPLEMENT IT IN A WHILE LOOP

I TRIED SOMETHING LIKE THIS

WHILE
CAT FILENAME |

READ LINE .....

BUT I AM UNABLE TO PASS THE VALUE OF CLASSNAME IN FIND COMMAND.

FIND . -NAME CLASSNAME |SORT

PLEASE HELP

SECONDLY

I have a text file containing values as

./V02345CS/1.CPP
./V02340CS/2.CPP
./V02349CS/3.CPP
./V02348CS/4.CPP
./V02347CS/5.CPP
./V02346CS/6.CPP

FIRST I WANT TO SEPARTELY STORE THE VALUES V02346CS (FOLDER NAME) AND 6.CPP (CLASS NAME) IN A VARIABLE AND UPDATE A ORACLE DATABASE TABLE.

ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED

REGARDS

---ULTIMATIX...
# 2  
Old 02-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ultimatix
I HAVE A TEXT FILE CONTAINING THE VALUES

1.CPP
2.CPP
3.CPP
4.CPP
5.CPP
6.CPP

I WANT TO TAKE EACH .CPP AND USE THE FIND COMMAND

There is no FIND command. Or WHILE loop, or CAT command.

Please turn off caps lock and fix your post.
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Old 03-01-2009
obviously i know .. i didnt copy pasted the code ....

wrote on caps lock for calrity to all forum members ...


extremely soory if somebody hurt !!!
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Old 03-01-2009
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Originally Posted by ultimatix
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