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Old 04-29-2005, 06:57 PM   #1
liren
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find shell script help


Hi,

I'm totally new at shell scripting and I've been Googling all day for examples on how to do what I'm trying to do. I also looked at the find Man pages but I still need help.

I need to find all unused *.php* files. So, what I want to do is first run a find that lists all the files and then do a grep to see if that file name is contained within the *.php* files and then print a list of files that are not called in any of the files.

I tried

find . -name '*.php*' -exec grep {} \; -print | grep :0

but that didn't work.

then i tried to declare an array

declare -a files
files=`find . -name '*.php*'`
echo ${files[0]}

but that just dumped the entire list into the first element.

then I tried in the command line

find . -name '*.php*' > files.txt
find . -name '*.php*' -exec grep < files.txt {} \; > files2.txt

but that just wrote the first file name from the first file into the second file.

Please, help I don't know what else to do.

Thanks.
 
Old 04-29-2005, 07:53 PM   #2
YetAnotherDave
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How about this? Output should be a list of all '*.php*' files that are not included in another one. The "shortName" variable is used to trim the leading path off of "name" and might not be necessary ( depending on the specifics of your situation ).

Code:
#! /bin/bash
FILES=`find . -name '*.php*'`
for name in $FILES; do
    shortName=${name##*/}
    USAGE=`grep -l $shortName $FILES`
    if [ "$USAGE" = "" ] ; then
        echo $name
    fi
done
- Dave
 
Old 04-29-2005, 08:13 PM   #3
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For something like this, a more powerful language such as python seems to do the trick...

Code:
#!/usr/bin/python

import os
from fnmatch import filter

def readInfile(infile):
    f = open(infile, "r")
    text = f.readlines()
    f.close()
    return text

def searchFile(files, file, text):
    for page in files:
        for line in text:
            if page in line:
                if not page in keep:
                    keep.append(page)
            else:
                if not page in delete:
                    delete.append(page)

keep, delete = [], []
php_pages = filter(os.listdir(os.getcwd()), '*.php*')
for php_page in php_pages:
    searchFile(php_pages, php_page, readInfile(php_page))

print "Keep these:"
for file in keep:
    print "\t %s" % file
print "Delete these:"
for file in delete:
    if not file in keep:
        # os.remove(file)
        print "\t %s" % file
This seems to work well on my system with a few scratch files I created. If you are happy with the results then you can get the script to actually just delete the files for you...

Sorry, the script should actually work now

Last edited by bulliver; 04-30-2005 at 03:25 AM.
 
Old 05-02-2005, 03:05 PM   #4
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Thanks for your replies. I decided to keep it simple and use the first example. It worked great!
 
  


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