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Old 04-26-2012
Recursively *.ext files using find
HI,

Getting the syntax error " find: missing conjunction" for the below code

Code:
D1_DIR=/x/y/z
D1_NAME=file_name
FILE_DIR=pset
for file in `find ${D1_DIR}/${D1_NAME} -name "*\.${FILE_DIR}" /dev/null {} \;`
do
                echo $file
done

#Trying to find all the files with *.pset extension in the folder ${D1_DIR}/${D1_NAME} recursively and trying to loop through each file.

please let me know the fix for the error.

thanks
Last edited by methyl; 04-26-2012 at 07:29 AM.. Reason: please use code tags
# 2  
Old 04-26-2012
Remove the below part from find command and run
Code:
 /dev/null {} \;

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# 3  
Old 04-26-2012
The error is coming from the superflous /dev/null and the extra punctuation.

The loop would be much more robust with while instead of for:
Code:
find "${D1_DIR}/${D1_NAME}" -name "*\.${FILE_DIR}" -print | while read file
do
                echo "${file}"
done

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# 4  
Old 04-26-2012
I have the list of files to be processed in another input file. Now with in the for/while loop i need to restrict my processing only for the files present in input file.

let me know how to achieve the same. thanks.

---------- Post updated at 05:54 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:53 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by pravin27
Remove the below part from find command and run
Code:
 /dev/null {} \;


thanks a lot for your reply
# 5  
Old 04-26-2012
Please post a couple of example lines from "input file" making it clear whether the file contains full paths.
# 6  
Old 04-26-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
The error is coming from the superflous /dev/null and the extra punctuation.

The loop would be much more robust with while instead of for:
Code:
find "${D1_DIR}/${D1_NAME}" -name "*\.${FILE_DIR}" -print | while read file
do
                echo "${file}"
done

I think the
Code:
/dev/null

is not superflous; it is just used wrongly. It might be necessary when any of the sub-directories in the search path do not have execute permissions. In such a case, it's better to redirect standard error to
Code:
/dev/null

.
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