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Joe,
 
You might be getting "too many arguments" because the command instantiates the 
*.jsp into multiple files.  Based on my research, this is not good.
 
Use redirection of standard outpur and input to try the same thing...
 
    ls /pathname/*.jsp > tempfile     -- redirect output to temp file
    touch < tempfile                       -- redirect temp file as input to 
touch command
 
It might require the tempfile to be fully qualified ( i.e., 
/qsys.lib/templib.lib/tempfile.file/tempfile.mbr)
 
Let me know how it works out...my unix has rusted over the past 20+ years!

William

date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:21:34 -0700 (PDT)
from: William Washington III 
subject: Re: Recursive touching... Whoo hoo!

Joe, 

I'm not a java-guy (yet), but the RPG or CL way I have used is to use some QSH 
commands and pipe the information to a temporary file, then process the 
temporary file in RPG.

Example:
in CL:
CRTPF FILE(tmplib/tmpfile)
CHGVAR &cmd ('cd /filepath/ && ls *.ext > 
/qsys.lib/tmplib.lib/tmpfile.file/tmpmbr.mbr')
STRQSH CMD(&CMD)

This will place the contents of everything in the IFS directory specified by 
the filepath with extension .ext into the temporary file.

Next, just open an RPG program with the temporary file overridden and process. 
You will probably want to make a command that calls the CL program to do the 
work.

I've simplified this process, but not by much. Look in a QSHELL reference for 
switches on the ls command. I think this will get you going...

William

date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:41:05 -0500
from: "Joe Pluta" 
subject: Recursive touching... Whoo hoo!

Alright, I give.

What's the easiest programmatic way to touch a file in the IFS? I
wanted to do "touch *.jsp" in a folder, and I get the dreaded "too many
arguments" error, because there are too many files in the folder (don't
get me started on how stupid this is).

So, now I'd like some suggestions on the simplest way to:

1. Touch a single file
2. Specify a folder and touch every JSP in that folder and all its
subfolders.

A straightforward multi-step process using temporary files and standard
shell commands is an acceptable possibility. Simple code for doing it
from RPG is also fine.

Last place option is a Java program.

Joe



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