RE: Need to scan files -- MIDRANGE-L

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Rather reduces it's effectiveness for the original poster.  How do you
search multiple files.

Rob Berendt
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Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
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04/04/2002 07:11 PM
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Turns out we do have qshell up. I tried this and it worked. You need the
member. I got the same error when I left the member off.

At 05:40 PM 4/4/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Don't have QSHELL installed on this system. Have you tried extending the
>path to the member?  A file is treated like a directory, the member is
the
>real data part.
>
>At 02:58 PM 4/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>Actually I was just trying out that theory.....using grep/tail.
>>Doesn't seem to work for files in the QSYS.LIB file system.
>>
>>STRQSH
>>cd ..
>>cd QSYS.LIB/PRODFILE.LIB
>>
>>tail DSIPICKS.FILE
>>tail: 001-2104 Error found reading from file DSIPICKS.FILE. Operation
not
>>supported.
>>
>>grep -c 'CUSHION' DSIPICKS.FILE
>>0 <zero returned>
>>
>>Too bad really.  But I sure understand why IBM wouldn't allow
>>things like this -- potentially very dangerous.....
>>
>>Terry
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:37 PM
>> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>> > Subject: Re: Need to scan files
>> >
>> >
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>> > Perhaps this is a flashback to my college days, but can you do a
>> > STRQSH and then use some unix command to search through all files in
a
>> > particular library like
>> > /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/*.file
>> > And if your file has multiple members would it search each of
>> > those?  If
>> > so, what is the unix command?
>> >
>> > Rob Berendt
>> > --
>> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>> > Benjamin Franklin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Rick Klopfer" <rklopfer@daytonprogress.com>
>> > Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
>> > 04/04/2002 02:28 PM
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>> > We have a need to scan thru "a whole bunch" of physical files for a
>> > particular set of characters.  We are trying not to write too
>> > much code.
>> > Wondering is there is a utility around that will do this??
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