Re: Copying in the IFS (or even just listing): exceptions/directories only?

Perhaps 'simpler' I suppose but one of the most powerful parts of the SQL solution is that with a tiny tweak that output can be directed to a tabel. Once in a table even I, the official MQC of RPG, can act upon the rows in said table. (Truth though is I'd probably act on it with CL. :-) )
- DrF

On 2/1/2021 1:16 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 2/1/21 10:02 AM, Chris Pando wrote:

find . -type f | egrep -v zip$

from the shell will give you every file that doesn't end with zip.

find . -type d

Interesting. I've used the Linux "find" (in fact, I use it like crazy in our AWS EC2 instances), and I've used the MacOS/BSD "find" (which is slightly, but maddeningly, different from the Linux version), but I never knew that QShell had a "find."

And I see that the "-name" parameter also works (which also bears on the problem).

And it seems much simpler (albeit perhaps less flexible) than Larry's SQL solution (which is one I hadn't in my wildest dreams imagined).

The issue here is that we have a directory that contains too many entries for WRKLNK to display without some serious subsetting, let alone that it's too many entries for one human being to deal with in a reasonable amount of time (e.g., complete the analysis sometime before heat-death of the universe).

Just out of morbid curiosity, are there other solutions (that wouldn't involve spending all day researching API calls and writing a program to use them)?

Thanks.

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JHHL