topic Re: Looking For .Com files.... in Operating System - OpenVMS

Looking For .Com files....

Christopher Waddell — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:41:29 GMT

I am looking for all the .com files that exist on each disk.

I know the basic syntax is:

dir dev:[000000...]*.com

But how do I find out what to substitute for the "000000"??

Thanx In Advance,
->C.Waddell

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Bojan Nemec — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:52:01 GMT

Christopher,

Wellcome to the VMS forum!

The syntax is:

$ dir dev:[*...]*.com

This will search the whole disk.
I dont know what you means with what to substitute for the "000000".

The [000000] directory is the top directory of the device. Something like / in unix or c:\ in DOS or Windows.

Bojan

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Christopher Waddell — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:04:34 GMT

Thanx for the quick response.

The problem is I have like 10 disks on this machine and I would like to either query them all from the same place or just switch to each one an query it.

I apologize for my terminology, I'm a real noob at this.

->C.

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Bojan Nemec — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:10:57 GMT

Christopher,

You can not do a command like:

$ dir *:[*...]

but you can type:

$ dir disk1:[*...]*.com
$ dir disk2:[*...]*.com

or in one line:

$ dir disk1:[*...]*.com,disk2:[*...]*.com

Bojan

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Bojan Nemec — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:23:38 GMT

Ok,

There is a command procedure which will search all disks:

$l:
$ dv=f$device("*:","DISK")
$ if dv.eqs."" then exit
$ if f$getdvi(dv,"MNT") then dir 'dv'[*...]*.com
$ goto l

Maybe needs some more controls but in most cases it will work.

Bojan

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Christopher Waddell — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:52:26 GMT

Looks like that prog wants to work, but, it claims now I have insufficent privledge.

Thanx for all your help. I need to rattle some cages to get the permissions to do my job.

->C.

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:00:58 GMT

You can define a search list for all disks.
Then all_disk:<000000...>*.com will give you all com files on all disks.

Wim

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Joseph Huber_1 — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:41:28 GMT

no permissions:
Usually directories and files do not have the WORLD:R protection.
You need to be privileged enough to see all files: READALL or higher (SYSPRV,BYPASS) or be in a system group (UIC group low enough to fall into the SYSTEM: protection, usually <10 , exectly defined by sysgen parameter MAXSYSGROUP).

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:47:25 GMT

Christopher,

since you are new to VMS (Welcome!):

The structure of the Sytem Disk can be quite confusing to newbees.

The toplevel contains a (varying) number of SYS* directories.
EACH of those have a SYSCOMMON.DIR
BUT: those are ONLY aliases! (more or less comparable to, but definitely different from, softlinks on *UX.
They are all aliases of VMS$COMMON.DIR

So, in your procedure you will see the same sequence of files a number of times.
They really are ONLY different paths to SAME files, so do NOT try to "clean up" the "superflous" files, DELETing ONE means you delete the ONLY one!

For completeness: not really often, but it DOES occur that that construct is also used for other purposes than just the system structure.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Karl Rohwedder — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:00:49 GMT

Attached is a small DCL routine which uses the DFU utility to quickly scan for spcecific files on all or some disks.
At the begining are some customizations for
the DFU utility.

regards Kalle

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Peter Barkas — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:40:44 GMT

That command procedure looks familiar!

BTW There are more like this at:

http://dcl.openvms.org/

PHB

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Christopher Waddell — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:55:06 GMT

I am overwhelmed!

Thanx to all for you help.

To clairify: I am cataloging only. No deleting is ever planned.

Now this works real well:

$Dir _$1$DKA0:[000000...]*.com

Perfect, as a matter of fact. I get a nice list for the dive I can capture in a file. However, there is one little thing. This gives me all the versions of a file (;*) and I only want the latest.

Is there a way to specify that??

->C.

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Bob Carter_3 — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:02:11 GMT

Chris,

Adding a semicolon after the file type will result in displaying just the latest version of the files.

Example:
$Dir _$1$DKA0:[000000...]*.com;

Regards,

BC

Re: Looking For .Com files....

Antoniov. — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:28:12 GMT

Chris,
welcome in vms forum :-)

If you want to catalog you can retrieve only file name with follow commnad
$ DIR :[000000...]*.COM; /COL=1
you can also redirect output to file
$ DIR :[000000...]*.COM; /COL=1 -/OUT=

Antonio Vigliotti