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# 8  
Old 12-27-2008
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hi johnson

thanks for the quick response.

with the failure of touch command i just want to know the name of files which are not touched so that i could perform touch manually.

could you please explain me the meaning of || coninue in the below statement.

cd "$dir" || continue


In the above program is there any way we could get all the names of all files touched and not touched as output

I'm new to unix programming and need some inputs on books i could refer.

Please suggest.
# 9  
Old 12-27-2008
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Originally Posted by sussane
with the failure of touch command i just want to know the name of files which are not touched so that i could perform touch manually.

What do you expect to gain by touching the files?
Quote:

could you please explain me the meaning of || coninue in the below statement.

Please put code inside [code] tags (as I have done for you in this reply).
Quote:
Code:
cd "$dir" || continue


If the command on the left fails, the command on the right is executed.
Quote:
In the above program is there any way we could get all the names of all files touched and not touched as output

Code:
touch "$i" && printf 'Success: %s\n' "$i" || printf 'Failed: %s\n' "$i"

Quote:
I'm new to unix programming and need some inputs on books i could refer.

Links to other shell resources
# 10  
Old 12-29-2008
Thanks a lot johnson for your time and suggestion.Smilie


The code which u gave has worked very well. Thank you again for your time.
Frankly speaking u r the best.Smilie
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