Bit of a tricky one 1

[nrich239]

Here's a tricky one.
We have a list of servers that we test every week for vulnurabilities.

When these servers report back, their report is stored in a directory "/reports/<date>/<serverName>"

Now what I wanna do is take the total number of servers, and subtract the ones that reported back. Problem is that each one that reported back has it's own file.

Any ideas?
I was going to do a comm but that requires a single file and not a directory

 

[iribach]

- /report/server/date is sure better
- what do you want ?

 

[mrn]

Clear out the dir each week

then issue

ls /reports/<date>/*|wc -l


Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

 

[PHV]

You may redirect the output of a ls command to a text file:
ls /reports/<date> > list.<date>
and then play with the comm utility.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[nrich239]

Ahhh
I had not thought of that one
Thanks