RE: Need to scan files

Simon,

Thanks for the insight and the script example.  I just installed
FreeBSD on a PC at home and will probably come to "love" it just
like you do ;-)

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Coulter [mailto:shc@flybynight.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:25 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Need to scan files
>
>
>
> Hello Terry,
>
> You wrote:
> >Doesn't seem to work for files in the QSYS.LIB file system.
>
> regarding QSHELL utilities.
>
> They do work in QSYS.LIB.  You must remember that files are treated as
> directories when using IFS path names.  So:
>
>  grep -c 'EXFMT' /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/showntell.FILE/*R.MBR
>
> returns:
>
>  /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/showntell.FILE/CLRDR.MBR:0
>  /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/showntell.FILE/DUMPR.MBR:1
>  /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/showntell.FILE/SHWCMDHSTR.MBR:2
>  /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/showntell.FILE/SHWFFDR.MBR:5
>
> etc.
>
> grep does not recurse through directories but you can achieve
> that effect
> by typing the following incantation (change the path to suit
> your system):
>
> for PATH_NAME in `ls -d /qsys.lib/shcsrc.lib/*`
> do
> SEARCH=`echo ${PATH_NAME}/*.MBR`
> grep -c 'EXFMT' ${SEARCH}
> done
>
> NOTE:  The ` quotes in the above are really graves (that
> thing under the
> tilde, which is that squiggle above the TAB key).  The '
> quotes are really
> apostrophes.  Press Enter after typing each line.  It will
> run after the
> word 'done' is processed.
>
> You could also stick this in a shell script and make it
> generic.  Dontcha
> jus lurve nix!  Excuse me while I throw up!
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
>
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