RE: Need to scan files

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:45 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Need to scan files
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> Interesting.  I tried it here and got the same results as
> you.  Nix on the data pf's, but ok on the source pf's.
>
> I know very little about Unix.  So this command will not
> search through a directory?  Thus no ability to search
> through all the members is a set of files.  Therefore it
> is probably not worth the fight to get IBM to have
> this working on data pf's.

Actually, you could search through a "directory" by placing
this in a QSH (korn shell) script within a loop construct.
Although I'm not a Unix gearhead either, there are lots of
scripting examples available on the web.  This is similar
to the DOS batch file method but is MUCH more powerful.

I believe that IBM could change these utilities to work
with data files in the QSYS.LIB system, but it might break
POSIX compatibility - just speculating here.

As soon as I get a free weekend, I'll be installing FreeBSD
on a standalone PC at home (to run APACHE) and will be able
to experiment more with bash/korn shell programming. This
way I won't "hose" the AS/400 at work ;-)

Terry





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