Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

We have in a file a list of the path of files from one server.
We want to search if these files exist on another server , but the path on this new server isn't the same.

We want to use the command "awk" but there isn't the god way.

Example:
on server 1 in a file : listServer1.txt we have
/toto/titi/file.txt
/toto/titi/exam.txt

On server 2 we want to search on
/bbb/gggg/file.txt
/bbb/gggg/exam.txt

Can someone help us with this little problem

Thanks...

On the remote server, find the directory that file.txt resides in ...

you can ...

Code:

find / -name "file.txt" -exec ls {} \;

or if the file path will always be /dir/subdir/file.txt, you can ...

Code:

ls -l /*/*/file.txt

find . -type f -print | grep file.txt
find * -type f -print | grep file.txt
find / -type f -print | grep file.txt

No need for the grep....

find / -name "file.txt" -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

Looking at your input file, s script such as the following should get you started....

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

while read line; do
   filename=${line##*/}
   wcho "Finding filename: ${filename}"
   find . -name "${filename}" -type f -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null
done < filelist

exit 0

Cheers
ZB

looking for all the files in the list will confirm that you have the right directory but ... if there's one file in your list that you know does not exist anywhere else --- just find the directory that file resides in and you're there already ...