At 08:31 PM 11/13/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>You might have to be more specific on your goal. find with -exec will be
>able to do certain things on files, and a for loop will also be able do
>things to a list.
>
>Marco
k, here goes:
- first program creates a bunch of output like this
### Filename: /root/.addressbook
### No such file or directory
### Continuing...
### Warning: File system error.
### Filename: /root/.Xauthority
### No such file or directory
### Continuing...
### Warning: File system error.
### Filename: /root/.ICEauthority
### No such file or directory
- step two, I pipe this to `grep Filename` and end up with this:
### Filename: /root/.addressbook
### Filename: /root/.Xauthority
### Filename: /root/.ICEauthority
- step three, I use awk to parse out just the name of the
file with this command
awk `{print $3}`
and end up with this:
/root/.addressbook
/root/.Xauthority
/root/.ICEauthority
- step 4, now the goal is to run a command and use each line as
parameter. something like this:
grep -v "line from previous" tempfile.txt > tempfile.txt
In this particular case, tempfile.txt is a data file used by the original
program. It contains a list of files to process. The program reports
which files aren't available and I want to remove these entries from the
data file. It's just the jump from the last part that I'm stuck on. Any
ideas?
-Ed
ps... so far, the only idea I've come up with is to change the awk command
to something like this (I know formatted like this it won't work, but you
get the idea):
awk `{print grep -v "$3" tempfile.txt > tempfile.txt}` >
tempcommands.txt
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