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Old 05-30-2016
Wrench UNIX Shell Scripting (Solaris) for File Checking

Hi guys,

I'm sorry but i badly need your help. I am assigned to do a basic shell script in my job but sadly i don't have any idea on what it is because i am an electronics engineer, but i googled all of it, ask my friends but i cant finalize my scripts. so do please help me.

The requirement is i hve to do a shell script in unix solaris that will check invalid files in the directory. when there is an invalid file. it will echo "there is an invalid file in this directory(=the directory itself) please see dummyevents.log." then is no invalid file there. it will echo"there is no invalid file in this directory(=the directory itself)". then it will not produce dummyevents.log

how will you knwo that it is invalid file? ihave list of words like. if there is no "apple" word inside the file in the directory. it is invalid.

i hope you understand guys. and please see below draft of my scripts.

Code:
apple_DIR=/home/cfg/dirAPPLE.cfg
banana_DIR=/home/cfg/dirBANANA.cfg
orange_DIR=/home/cfg/dirORANGE.cfg
RESULT=/home/
apple_file=`cat $APPLE_DIR`
banana_file=`cat $BANANA_DIR`
orange_file=`cat $ORANGE_DIR`
#apple
for a in $apple_file
    do 
	cd $a
	touch Statuscheck.tmp
	ls -lrt | grep -l apple > Statuscheck.tmp
    FILE=`cat Statuscheck.tmp | wc -l`
    if [ $FILE -ne 0 ]
	then
	   echo "Invalid file in $a directory" > $RESULT/dummyevents.log
    fi
    rm Statuscheck.tmp
    done
#banana
for b in $banana_file
    do 
	cd $b
	touch Statuscheck.tmp
	ls -lrt | grep -l banana > Statuscheck.tmp
    FILE=`cat Statuscheck.tmp | wc -l`
    if [ $FILE -ne 0 ]
	then
	   echo "Invalid file in $b directory" > $RESULT/dummyevents.log
    fi
    rm Statuscheck.tmp
    done
#orange
for c in $orange_file
    do 
	cd $c
	touch Statuscheck.tmp
	ls -lrt | grep -l orange > Statuscheck.tmp
    FILE=`cat Statuscheck.tmp | wc -l`
    if [ $FILE -ne 0 ]
	then
	   echo "Invalid file in $c directory" > $RESULT/dummyevents.log
    fi
    rm Statuscheck.tmp
    done


Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-30-2016 at 07:29 AM.. Reason: Add missing CODE tags.
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Old 05-30-2016
Not sure if I understood correctly. Let me paraphrase:
You have a handful of directories with some files in each. You want to check if those files have exactly ONE keyword in them, each directory having a different keyword. While the files to be searched are supplied in a config file, one per directory, the keywords are NOT but are constants. Correct?

Some comments upfront:
- *nix differentiates between cases, so apple_DIR does NOT equal APPLE_DIR.
- you can't cat directories (cat $APPLE_DIR) - or is that variable name just misleading?
- with identical code pieces (as shown for the different fruits), loops or subroutines/functions lend themselves for implementation.

Other optimization potential we can discuss once the requirements are clear.


EDIT: And, of course: Please use code tags as required by forum rules!
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Old 05-30-2016
i'm so sorry for the confusion.

in exact i have 7 directories that i need to check. let me give an example.

first directory /home/banana and this directory has files which has "BANANA" word in it. so what they want me to do is to detect the file in the directory WITHOUT "BANANA" word in it because it is considired an ivnalid file in the directory. when file(s) WITHOUT "BANANA" is/are detected it will echo "there is invalid files in this directory. please see dummyevents.log"

and the resutls of the script is the dummyevents.log which when you view it, will contain the directories who has a invalid file and the filename of the invalid file.

i hope you understand.

also you can diregard my draft script and suggest another script construction or scipt approach.. thanks.

Last edited by daveaztig14; 05-30-2016 at 09:42 AM.. Reason: Disregarding draft sciprt
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Old 05-30-2016
Could you post an example of your config data, or are you happy with any (new) structure of config file(s)?
Any subdirectories under e.g. /home/banana?
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Old 05-30-2016
And, keyword always the same as the directory name? Should the search respect case or not?
Where should the config file reside?
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# 6  
Old 05-30-2016
You failed to mention which shell you are using. With a not too old bash that has extended pattern matching with the extglob shell option, and a config file with directory and keyword in it like
Code:
./apple         tart
./orange        juice
./banana        banana

this might already do the trick:
Code:
while read DIR KW REST; do cd $DIR; echo invalid files in $DIR: $(ls !(.|..|$(grep -l $KW *))); cd ..; done < dave.cfg;
invalid files in ./apple: X y
invalid files in ./orange: Z
invalid files in ./banana: x

Of course, this is not yet bullet proof, as there's no error checking yet built in, and the positive message is missing, too.
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Old 05-30-2016
I hope this is not coursework/homework.
And I assume that you want to check the file names (not the file data)
Code:
basedir=/home
log=$basedir/dummyevents.log

for word in banana apple orange
do
  dir=$basedir/$word
  badfile=0
  
  for fname in $dir/*
  do
    if [ -f "$fname" ]
    then
      case "$fname" in
      *$word*) # these are ok
      ;;
      *) # all others
        echo "Invalid filename '$fname'" # >> $log
        # not redirected here, for efficiency we redirect the whole loop
        badfile=1
      ;;
      esac
    fi
  done >> $log
  
  if [ $badfile -eq 1 ]
  then
    echo "Invalid file in $dir, see $log"
  fi
done


Last edited by MadeInGermany; 05-30-2016 at 06:03 PM.. Reason: Added missing $
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