Re: DSPAUT -- MIDRANGE-L

Hello,

Ok, I'm getting further along thanks to you folks;

find fbtest/* -name '*' > /fbtest/authinfo


Consider changing this command to the following:

find /fbtest > /fbtest/authinfo

The way you coded it, the "find" program is being passed the name of everyfile in the directory, and that's not necessary, since "find" willautomatically recurse into subdirectories.

If you have a small number of files in the directory, it won't matter.The results will be the same. But omitting the wildcard will preventerrors when you have a lot of files in the directory.

You'll also not ethat I added a leading slash to the "fbtest" directoryname. You had "fbtest/*" and I changed it to "/fbtest". The slash tellsQShell to start with the root directory. In other words, it'll open thefbtest directory that's located in the root directory of the IFS. Yourmethod (omitting the slash) tells it to start with your current directtoryand move forward.


For example, if you type:

     cd /qibm
     find fbtest > outfile.txt

it'll list all of the files in the /qibm/fbtest directory. By contrast,if you type:


     cd /qibm
     find /fbtest > outfile.txt

It won't matter that you just used the "cd" command to change your currentdirectory, it'll always look at the fbtest directory that's located on theroot directory.

This is important when you're writing a script or program, because thecurrent directory is intended to be something that's changed by the user.If you don't include the leading slash, your program might work for someusers but not other users, or it might work today and stop workingtomorrow when the system configuration changes. Including the leadingslash will save you headaches down the road.

I also removed " -name '*' " from your find command because it's notnecesary. The "find" utility lists all names by default.

If you intend to use this from a CL program, then I suggest NOT directingthe output to a file. Instead, I suggest directing the output to STDOUT(the default) and let the CL program handle the re-direction with anOVRDBF command. For example:


PGM

    CRTPF QTEMP/MYFILE RCDLEN(1000)
    OVRDBF FILE(STDOUT) TOFILE(QTEMP/MYFILE)
    STRQSH CMD('find /fbtest')
    DLTOVR FILE(STDOUT)

ENDPGM

The main reason I prefer that technique is that QShell can't use the QTEMPlibrary. Since QTEMP adds lots of value (IMHO) to the process, it's nicerto let the CL program do it, since it *can* direct the output to QTEMP.

At this point, MYFILE contains a list of the filenames in the /fbtestdirectory. You can read that file, and for each filename, execute theDSPAUT command to display the authority.


(If that's what you were looking for?)

Alternately, you could display the authority settings directly (in Unixformat) using the -ls switch to the find command. For example:


    STRQSH CMD('find /fbtest -ls')

But bear in mind that it'll show them in a Unix format, and that might notbe intuitive to your users who are used to iSeries authorities. Plus, itdoesn't show everything, since the iSeries is capable of lots of authoritysettings that Unix is not, and "find" only knows abut the Unix stuff.


So DSPAUT might be a better alternative.

HTH