Syntaxe error "find"

tonton · 08-26-2004, 05:06 AM

hello,

i want to find files "toto*"

after, i want to display all files found without the 3rd first lignes for each file in a new "titi"

in this new file "titi", i want to have on the end of each ligne, the name of the directory.

to make this, i use :

for j in $i
do
find ./ -name "$toto*" -exec tail +3 {} | "$j" \; >> titi
done

it doesn't work.

Thanks for your help

bigearsbilly · 08-26-2004, 05:26 AM

what's the purpose of the 'for' loop?

you cannot put a pipe '|' in the middle of the -exec option.
the "$toto*" should be 'toto*' single quotes, otherwise it will only
find in the current directory.

chrism01 · 08-26-2004, 05:43 AM

I'm not quite clear on exactly what you want, I'm guessing English is not your 1st language, but that's not important

I think to start with that you want all files beginning with 'toto', you want to remove the 1st 3 lines and concatenate (collect/append) all the results into a file called 'titi'.

This shoud do that:

Code:

for file in `find . -name 'toto*' -print 2>/dev/null`
do
    result=`tail +4 $file`
    echo $result >> titi
done

I'm not sure which directory you want appended to each line? If it's the one each 'toto*' file is in, it'll be repeated for each line of that file. Is that really what you want?

HTH

infernal · 08-27-2004, 07:34 AM

Assuming this is the format of the titi file that you want to create

Code:

lines of toto1
/path/to/toto/1

lines of toto2
/path/to/toto2

lines of totoN
/dir/of/totoN
...

these are the params of find to solve the problem:

Code:

find . -name 'toto*' -type f -exec tail +4 {} >> titi \; -exec printf "--- file {}\n\n" >> titi \;