Re: Finding members

Now who was complaining about black boxes? Joe, are you there?

Don't know about fixed-column formatiing, Syd. I wondered that, too. I
don't see anything in the doc that allows for formatting, but, as I say,
whole books are written on this. And the things that can be done are
related to how regular expressions work, I think.

Of course, you could create IFS output with certain delimiters, then use
CPYFRMIMPF to a physical file.

Ooh, this is neat stuff!

There is always awk, another command (or gawk, the GNU equivalent). I think
this is more advanced. It's available free from IBM in something called GNU
Utilities.

I DID find that I don't need to use so many pipes - there's a "-e" option
that appends commands together, so this works just like what I presented
before:

find /QSYS.LIB/VERN.LIB -name 'TEST*.MBR' | sed -e s\%/QSYS.LIB/%% -e
s/.LIB// -e s\%.FILE/%\(% -e /.MBR/s//\)/

Probably faster

Cheers

Vern

At 05:35 PM 11/8/02 +0000, you wrote:

Thanks Vern,

I can now see what is happening - Magic.

I have been playing about with this and discovered it is possible to
pipe direct to the QSYS.LIB file system:

find Directory -name searchCriteria >
/QSYS.LIB/OutputLib.LIB/OutputFile.FILE/OutputMbr.MBR

If it is possible to output each part of the path as a fixed length,
(eg. Each library, file or member is 10 chars. long), then it should be
possible to create an outfile and associated logicals that can readily
be used to display, print, etc.

Alternatively %SCAN and %SUBST can be used on the data, but this
restricts the possible uses of the output file.

Is it possible to pad the library/file/member names with blanks to a
fixed length?

Syd