RE: Need to scan files -- MIDRANGE-L

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
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> > "Rick Klopfer" <rklopfer@daytonprogress.com>
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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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> > files
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