comparing files using awk

[Kurtkarl]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

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

[Krishna Prasad]

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.

[Anthony deRito]

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

Tony

[Robin Wakefield]

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:

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#!/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!)

[Vincent Farrugia]

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

[G. Vrijhoeven]

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