UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Works as follows on Solaris 8 (and 2.6) in ksh as follows:

$ cat jag
#!/bin/ksh
cd /home/myhome/test
ls -ls *.fixed
exit

$ ./jag
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 justmer sysadmin 0 Jun 5 15:57 EVENMORE.LOG.fixed
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 justme sysadmin 0 Jun 5 15:50 junk.fixed
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 justme sysadmin 0 Jun 5 15:56 more.log.fixed

You might want to post the code you have in the script (and any variables).

It looks like your script is interpreting *.fixed literally... check to make sure you're not using something like ls '*.fixed' with apostrophes.. and while you're at it check capitalization.

Create a file called perderabo.fixed and put it in the target directory. Change your shell script to display only that file. Does this much work?

If so, do the command:
set -o | grep noglob

Do you see:
noglob &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp off

This could be caused by turning noglob on. Don't do that.

In a new script file I have put;

#!/bin/ksh

cd /app/icop/aircrews/CIP/data/CMSLOG/log/batch/history
PWDIR=`pwd`
cd $PWDIR
ls -ls *.fixed

echo ""
cd /app/icop/aircrews/CIP/data/CMSLOG/log/batch/history
ls -ls *.fixed
exit

Output =
/home/users/thripj $testls
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 icopmgr icop 1318 Jun 4 15:05 ADDR0605003136.LOG.fixed

8 -rw-r--r-- 1 icopmgr icop 1318 Jun 4 15:05 ADDR0605003136.LOG.fixed

I put the code into my original script and get
*.fixed: No such file or directory

*.fixed: No such file or directory
/home/users/thripj $
I am a bit reluctant to put my code in this forum, because the system I am dealing with has very sensitive data.
Plus there are a lot of lines of code in this script.

I have tested the viewing of files in a seperate script, which works I might add.

/home/users/thripj $set -o | grep noglob
noglob off
/home/users/thripj $

Well, so you know that your code / environment settings / etc are all set properly to display what you want to display ... there's something wrong with your script, but if you feel it's too sensitive, it's hard to help... at the very least, is it still too risky to display the block of code in your script that actually changes to the directory with the *.fixed files in them and displays them? You wouldn't have to display the whole script..

Well, you know the problem is in your script. Maybe you can get another SysAdmin to look at it (at your office) if you can't/won't post the script.

Take a break or leave it for tomorrow(and in the middle of the night you will probably figure it out). Also, you could change anything you believe you need to for security reasons. If you think my home directory is myhome and my user ID is justme....
It is common to insure you don't put something out here that may show where someone might be able to get into. If you did, some of us would probably notice and let you know to change it. I called and emailed one person (female) who left their email and phone number on one of their questions (at the time I was not a moderator so I couldn't edit it). She was shocked that I knew her number. I told her to change the post immediately. She deleted it and never did get an answer to her problem. You just have to be careful.