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Old 04-12-2020
Touch file inside directory referenced by wild card.

I'm on the AiX system.

ls -d /[Oo]racle/mymac/ returns

/oracle/mymac/ or /Oracle/mymac/ whichever is found on my system.

I wish to touch a file file.tmp inside the found directory.

I was trying

Code:
touch | ls -d /[Oo]racle/mymac/ | echo file.tmp

But this does not work.

Can you please suggest how can I get this to work ?
# 2  
Old 04-12-2020
Why you are piping touch's stdout (which is empty) into ls's stdin (which doesn't require any) into echo's(which doesn't either)?



If you're sure there is only either one or the other, try

Code:
touch $(echo [Oo]racle/mymac/)file.tmp

echo is preferred to ls here as it is a shell (here: bash) builtin.


EDIT: tricky use of bash's "brace expansion" if both dir versions exist:
Code:
touch {O..o..32}racle/mymac/file.tmp


Last edited by RudiC; 04-12-2020 at 07:12 PM..
# 3  
Old 04-12-2020
I cannot test this on AIX; works on Linux and Solaris:
Code:
find . -name '/[Oo]racle/mymac' -exec touch {} \;

# 4  
Old 04-13-2020
Quite simple:
Code:
touch /[Oo]racle/mymac/file.tmp

will create a file in whatever directory is present.
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