Script for checking file existance

[pfildes]

I have a problem of trying to identify whether a certain set of files in a source folder exist in a target folder.

I'm looking to create a HP-UX KSH script which when given the following as command line args would check if a file exists in both directories;

a) File pattern e.g. *.txt
b) Source directory
c) Target directory

Can anybody point me in the right direction, or explain how I begin to tackle this problem?

 

[KenCunningham]

What have you got so far?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[pfildes]

Nothing to be honest!.

I have some experience of UNIX scripting but currently only regard myself as a novice. I am learning though or at least trying to.

With having some experience of Solaris I was thinking of something along the lines of;

lc $2 | foreach $1 in $2.......

however the "foreach" or even "for" command is not available on my HP-UX machine.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry - I wasn't trying to be flippant, just don't have much time at the moment! I take it lc is supposed to be ls?

You might want to look into find and the -mtime and -newer switches (search this forum too).

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[kozlow]

ls SOURCE > source.lst
ls TARGET > target.lst

diff source.lst target.lst

 

[TheKidd]

pfildes,
If I understand your question correctly, this should work too:

#!/bin/ksh
SRC=/tmp
TRGT=/home/oracle/scripts
find $SRC $TRGT -name "*.txt"
exit

 

[pfildes]

I managed to resolve my problem with the following script code;

cd $srcFolder
for aFile in `ls -C *.*`; do
    if [ ! -f $trgFolder/$aFile ]; then
        echo "Missing file: $aFile"
    fi
done