Hi Lizette,
I don't have a rexx handy, but you can simple use the ls and grep
commands that you mentioned. For example:
ls -R | grep '.*.tar'
this would list all file from the current directory (and
subdirectories) that contain the characters 'tar' . The output would be
presented on the screen. If you wanted a "report" ike option, you could pipe
the output of the previous command to a file. For example:
ls -R | grep '.*.tar' > ./list.txt
Same results as the previous example, but the output would be in a file
named list.txt in the current directory.
If am not sure about the performance of ls/grep versus find, but you
could start in smaller subdirectories and work your way back to the top or stop
when the performance become intolerable!!
Hth
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help with a Unix process
So I am not very good with Unix, and now I need to find any file in a large
number of directories one directory has 130 directories with the tail .new (yep
clean up time)
So in OMVS I know the find / -name \*.new could work. But with the number of
directories I have to search it is not performing
I am thinking there could be a REXX in Unix written to do this. ls -al and
then search through the output
Maybe even using a grep.
But with so many of you other there with really awesome UNIX skills, what
should I, a novice, look at to be good performing, could be run in batch (Yep
like that
option) or produce a report in a file I can find that will show me all the
files in all the directories that have the tail I am looking for.
Thanks
Lizette Koehler
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