Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am looking for a awk/shell which can find an element named REFERENCE in a XML file and check whether it is empty or not.

If there is no value in the REFERENCE element then correspondingly move the file to some other folder.

The Unix server is AIX version 4.

Any inputs would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Karan

if [ `cat my.xml | grep "<REFERENCE>.*</<REFERENCE>" | wc -l` = 0 ]
> then
> mv my.xml dir_nm
> fi

Thanks fior the reply can you please let me know if i want to check a directory for all the files without reference element and then move them how can i do that.

I think the one you wrote will apply to one file only. I apologise i dont know Unix much so maybe might be wrong somewhere

for FILE in `ls -1 *.xml`
do
if [ `cat $FILE| grep "<REFERENCE>.*</<REFERENCE>" | wc -l` = 0 ]
then
mv $FILE dir_nm
fi
done

it is giving me all the files whether empty reference element or not...
the empty XML file could be like

1. <REFERENCE></REFERENCE>
2. <REFERENCE />

When i ran this script it moved all the files whether having a value or not in REFERENCE element.

Can you please assist me on this...

Hi this is the solution which i tried and is working...can someone pls look at it and let me know if it could cause some problem

for FILE in `ls -1 *.xml`
+2 do
+3 if [ `cat $FILE| grep -F "<REFERENCE></REFERENCE>" | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
+4 then
+5 #mv $FILE /dfds03/editst6/guru
+6 echo $FILE
+7 elif [ `cat $FILE| grep -F "<REFERENCE />" | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
+8 then
+9 #mv $FILE /dfds03/editst6/guru
+10 echo $FILE
+11 elif [ `cat $FILE| grep -F "<REFERENCE/>" | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
+12 then
+13 #mv $FILE /dfds03/editst6/guru
+14 echo $FILE
+15 fi
+16 done

Thanks & Regards
Karan

echo "Enter dir name frm whr u wanna search:--give the full path--"
read dir

if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then
echo "Dir not found!"
exit
fi

echo "Enter destination dir path:"
read destdir_nm


for FILE in `find $dir -name *.xml`
do


if [ -f $FILE ] && [ `cat $FILE | grep "<REFERENCE></REFERENCE>" | wc -l` -gt 0 ] || [ `cat $FILE | grep "<REFERENCE />" | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
then

echo "! File Found: $FILE "
mv $FILE $destdir_nm

fi

done