topic Scripting Help in Operating System - Linux

Scripting Help

Sean Kuruvilla — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:46:11 GMT

Hello,

I am new to this scripting world. I was wondering if anyone had a script that would find a certian file in my HPUX 11.0.b server then either email it or FTP it out to a certian address. It really help me out. Thank you in advance.

Re: Scripting Help

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:56:27 GMT

Hi:

There are plenty of threads in this Forum for simple FTP scripts. Simply search for those. One variation is:

#!/usr/bin/sh
ftp -n << EOF
open thehost
user uuu ppp
get /tmp/stuff
close
EOF

...Substitute the appropriate hostname for "thehost". Substitute the appropriate user login and password for the "uuu" and "ppp" strings, respectively, and do a 'get' or 'put' of the file you want, accordingly.

As for finding a file, 'find' is your friend. For example, to find a file containing the characters 'sean' in the directory '/var' you could do:

# find /var -xdev -type f -name "*sean*"

The '-xdev' argument prevents 'find' from crossing mountpoints in its search through the 'var' directory and subdirectories. The '-type f' says look only for *files*, not directories and sockets and pipes. The enclosure of the string "*sean*" in quotes keeps the shell from expanding the wildcard characters and let's 'find' look for any file basename that contains the string "sean" somewhere. Thus, the 'find' would find "sean", "seansfile", "the_sean_file", etc.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Scripting Help

Peter Godron — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:06:50 GMT

Sean,
if you know there is only one file by that name:
cat `find / -name filename` | mailx -s"Found" email@aol.com

where you replace filename with the filename you are looking for and email@aol.com with your email address.

Re: Scripting Help

HP User-St. Louis-MO — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:21:29 GMT

and another example of how you could email as attachement if file is unique... mime type could be changed depending on the type of file. Make the body and subject whatever...

find /path -type f -name yourfile -print |xargs mailfile.sh

Hope this helps,
-denver

Re: Scripting Help

spex — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:43:37 GMT

Hi Sean,

Multiple files matching your search pattern are okay, too:

#!/usr/bin/sh
find /abs_path -type f -name '*query*' -print | xargs tar cvf /tmp/query.${$}.tar
uuencode /tmp/query.${$}.tar query.tar | mailx -m -s "[$(date +%m\/%d\/%y)] query.tar attached" your@email.addr
rm -f /tmp/query.${$}.tar
exit

PCS

Re: Scripting Help

Martin Roende — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:41:13 GMT

Dont forget , what is mentioned as last entry in this itrc entry, (about scripting in cron )
If thats where you are going to use it ...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1061204&admit=-682735245+1158777821599+28353475

regards martin at unixera dk