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Hello everyone, I am new to this forum so I dont really know how things work around here in terms of posting questions and getting answers. Anyway I have a question and I hop someone can help.

Here is the scenario. I have a script that counts the amount of lines in serial files as well as multi files using wc -l. The script works perfectly when used on the current server where it is stored but now I have been told that there is a folder with some files that need counting ona remote server. I initially I just wanted to tranfer the script over but because the remote server is the current production server and they dont want anyone messing with it, how can I modify my script to be used across to servers?

below is the script that counts the files on the same server where the count script is:

out=xxx_xxx_dq_counts_check.dat #dat file to store count results
bse=/usr/users/xxx/xxx #base dir
date > $bse/$out #overwrite existing file or create new file
filepath=$bse/$out #assign dir path and filename to variable '$filepath' for easy reference


export basedir1=$xx_xx_xx #where serial files are stored on the local server

if [ -d $basedir1 ] #check to see if dir exists
then
echo "...Starting to process serial files. Please wait...\n"
echo "\n...SERIAL FILES...\n" >> $filepath
for file in `ls -1 $basedir1`
do
cd $basedir1
echo $file #optional to display file currently being processed
wc -l $file >> $filepath #append to file here
done
echo "\n...Serial files processed, now processing multi-files. Please wait...\n"
else
echo Serial Folder $xx_xxx_SERIAL_MONTHLY not found.
echo Serial Folder $xx_xxx_SERIAL_MONTHLY not found. >>$filepath
fi

Now the files I need to look at are on a different server and I have been given a path like the one below:

//Server_Name/usr/users/User_Name/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5

and the files whose lines I want to count are in folder 5 and to make matters complicated, I have both serial and Multi-files. I believe m_ls can be used to list the contents of the items in folder 5 on a different server but wc -l will not work. Can anyone help? is it possible to do what I propose to do or should I try something totally different?

thanks, any help will be greatly appreciated. Sorry if I didn't make myself very clear, just ask if you have any Q's

D.