Re: find question

2009-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jay Hall wrote: I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I cannot figure it out. I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all of the files in the directory to a file. Here is the code. #!/usr/local/bin/bash cat ${FILELIST} |

Re: find question

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Try this as:    for line in $( cat $FILELIST ) ; do        echo $line        find $line -type f $TMPFILE    done *assuming that none of the directory names in $FILELIST contain spaces* for line in

Re: find question

2009-08-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:00:40 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Try this as: for line in $( cat $FILELIST ) ; do echo $line find $line -type f $TMPFILE done *assuming that none of

Re: find question

2009-08-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:00:40 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Try this as:    for line in $( cat $FILELIST ) ; do

Re: find question

2009-08-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:33:42 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 07:00:40 Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk

find question

2009-08-04 Thread Jay Hall
I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I cannot figure it out. I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all of the files in the directory to a file. Here is the code. #!/usr/local/bin/bash cat ${FILELIST} | while read LINE

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:06:56 Jay Hall wrote: I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I cannot figure it out. I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all of the files in the directory to a file. Here is the code.

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Gatten
What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never needed it. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue Aug 04 20:06:56 2009 Subject: find

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gary Gattenggat...@waddell.com wrote: What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never needed it. Gary, -type allows different types of files to be located -- 'f' - regular file, 'd' - directory, 'l' - link, etc. Have a look at find(1) for more

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Jay Hall
What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never needed it. Type is used to specify the type of file to be found. f is a regular file. Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Gatten
Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered? From: Jay Hall To: Gary Gatten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue Aug 04 20:41:22 2009 Subject: Re: find question What

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Jay Hall
Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered? I think I just found the problem. I am testing now. There was a blank line at the end of the file. ___

Re: find question

2009-08-04 Thread Mike Bristow
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered? Yes. But to be clear, one of the lines in the input file is blank, which means that find is run as find -type