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comparing files using awk

Kurtkarl — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:16:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm not a script guy and I'm currently in a situation which is, I need someone who could help me create a simple (for the experts) awk script that will compare system files against users input.

ex. - users entered "SAMPLE.TXT" (usually
upper case)
- systems could have "Sample.txt"
or "sample.txt"
or "sample.TXT"

regardless whatever the system has. Script should match users input against files in the system and proceed it's process. BTW, this is to ftp a file from one machine to another.

Your reply would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Joey

Re: comparing files using awk

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:25:54 GMT

One easy way is to use grep -i file_name
This will ignore case and pick up files.

For ex.,

DIR=/some_path
echo "Enter your file name:"
read file
ll $DIR |grep -i $file
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo $file is there
else
echo $file doesnot exist
fi

It will become little bit complicated if you use the path names.

-Sri

Re: comparing files using awk

Krishna Prasad — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:26:09 GMT

awk ' $0~/[S-s][A-a][M-m][P-p][L-l][E-e]/ ' filename

This will find any way the word sample was spelled in the filename searched.

Re: comparing files using awk

Anthony deRito — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:28:44 GMT

One suggestion, use the toupper or tolower built-in funtions in awk to consider both character cases.

Tony

Re: comparing files using awk

Robin Wakefield — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:30:17 GMT

Hi Joey,

This may not be what you want, and it doesn't use awk, but it'll find all files under a directory, regardless of case, that match the user's input:

================================
#!/bin/ksh

DIR=search-directory

echo Enter filename: '\c'
read FILENAME

find $DIR -type f | grep -i "/${FILENAME}$"
==================================

Obviously, you need to edit the "DIR=" line.

Rgds, Robin. (duplicate of reply in 1st post!)

Re: comparing files using awk

Vincent Farrugia — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:39:50 GMT

Hello,

This script might help:

echo | ls -l | grep -i $1

If this script is named finder, then typing:

finder

should work for the current directory.

HTH,
Vince

Re: comparing files using awk

G. Vrijhoeven — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:23:09 GMT

Hi,

#!/usr/bin/sh
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]
then
echo "USAGE=script_name DIR_NAME FILE_NAME"
exit 1
fi
DIRNAME=$1
FILENAME=$2
for i in `find $DIRNAME -depth`
do
TEST=`echo $i | grep -v -i $FILENAME`
if [ "$TEST" -eq "" ]
then
echo $i
fi
done

Hope this will help,

Gideon