Directory specs

[Allen Karczmarek]

I'm writing an automated online backup script for an Oracle database. I have a script that dynamically builds the directory lookups for things such as archive logs. In short my archive log directory is set to something like /exports/archive_logs/
Later in the script I want to do a test like
if [ -f $ARC*]; then blah blah blah.
I need a way to concatenate an asterisk to the end of the directory above to perform the test. Performing it as written above tests for files in the current directory and not in /exports/archive_logs/. Conversely, can you tell me how to remove the asterisk from the end of a string as well. Can this be done with SED?
Thanks!!!

[harry d brown jr]

Allen,

how about testing/doing something like this:

for i in `find /exports/archive_logs -type f`
do
echo do something with this file $i
done

live free or die
harry

[Allen Karczmarek]

harry,
The problem is that I'm stuck with the / at the end of /exports/archive_logs/.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi allen,
why can't you just

1. "cd" to the desired directory

2. ls -rt1 ./*.log > backup.list

3. then do any desired operations:

E.g.1:
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tar uvf $DAT `cat backup.list`
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E.g. 2:
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for i in `cat backup.list`
do
echo
echo "Renaming $i to:\c "
file=`basename $i .log`
echo "$file.bak"
mv $i $file.bak
done
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Hope this helps!

Best Regards
Yogeeraj