UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All,

This question is actually for the service console of VMware ESX 3.5 but is relevant to this forum I think. I have been advised to use the following commands:

for i in `find /vmfs/volumes/Test_VMFS/ -name "*.vmx"`
do
echo "$i"
#sed -i 's/scsi1:0.present = "true"/scsi1:0.present = "false"/g' "$i"
done

This works to modify that line in all the .vmx files that do NOT contain spaces in their path. But the ones that do fail. It has to do with the way that the FOR command reads in the variable. I have seen some posts on using the while command but I am unable to translate it into what I need. Plus I am not sure if VMware uses the while command from the Service Console. Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanx,
Matt

You are very close,

Code:

find /vmfs/volumes/Test_VMFS/ -name "*.vmx" | while read i
 
 do
   echo "$i"
  #sed -i 's/scsi1:0.present = "true"/scsi1:0.present = "false"/g' "$i"
 done

ESX 3.5 service console is built on a Red Hat Linux ( RHEL 3 ), so you can use either a for or while loop as needed.

Super fantastic! Totally worked! Thanks for the help.

Thanx,
Matt

I had spent nearly half day in searching solution for this problem. Finally I have found your answer and it really work perfect! Thank you very much!!!