Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there,

I'm encountering problems on an AIX system when using following in my script.

Code:

   find . -name *.edi -type f  -exec sh -c 'scp {} $user@$server:$path || exit 5; mv {} $sent || exit 7' \;

the error i get is following

find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.

i did some testing and appearantly this the problem. However i don't see how else i can do this :s (creating a for loop does not work as there are 2 many files (+10000)

Code:

-exec sh -c '...'

thx in advance for the help.

Could this help you ?

Code:

 
find . -name *.edi -type f  | xargs -I {} scp {} $user@$server:$path

this would be perfect if not for the move i also need to execute. Could i get 2 commands after the | ?
because it is very important that the mv is executed directly after the scp. (also the exit codes are important to us)

Try...

Code:

find . -name '*.edi' -type f | while read f; do scp $f $user@$server:$path || exit 5 ; mv $f $sent || exit 7 ; done

did anyone tell you you rock. Because you do.
It looks like this solves all the problems i encountered before.
I can go on to error testing now, but i'm quite confident it will work.

thanks again.