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Hello,
I'm hoping someone can help me with a script that will search multiple directories for any files called submake.sun.mk, do a more on that file and finally pipe the results along with the directory name to a text file. I am new to bash script writing so any help would be very much appreciated.

1. Capture the name of all directories which contain a file called submake.sun.mk
2. Do a "more" on the submake.sun.mk contained within each of the directories.
3. Capture the results of the "more"
4. Pipe the directory name along with the results item 3 to a text file.

Thank you in advance for your help.

hi

are you thinking with a mouse in your hand as a brain?

more is not the right tool to do such a thing, at least cat could be.

you should read the find command's man page.

show an example of what should be done, the way you explain is not clear (you can't pipe a name).

I apologize for not being very clear and will describe in more detail what I am trying to accomplish. There are about 200 sub-directories within a mount called /dir1/dir2/dir3/. Within each one of these sub-dirs, there is a file called submake.sun.mk. I am able to cd into these sub-directories and do a $ grep ^SZ_CUST_PATH= submake.sun.mk which successfully provides me with the answer I need for that particular directory. This is of course a very tedious process so I need a script that will capture the name of each sub-directory as well as the result of the grep statement for that directory and the submake.sun.mk within that directory. Ideally, I would like the sub-dir name and grep result to be formatted to a text file. Unfortunately, all I have been able to do thus far is figure out how to do the grep. Any assistance is again very much appreciated.

hi,

tedious, like having to read a one block description?

Try thisthat 'll find every directory under /dir1/dir2/dir3/, and grep <directory_found>/submake.sun.mk file for '^SZ_CUST_PATH'

The output will be
/dir1/dir2/dir3/<directory_found>/submake.sun.mk: <match>

Is it the format you want to be redirected to a "log" file?

I have to tell you that you have absolutely made my week! I just tried it and it works great. In terms of the format, ideally I would like the results to create a *.csv or file in which one column is the directory path and name and another column is the grep result.

Again, thank you so much for your assistance on this!

I apologize for the newbie question but I'm having difficulty determining the purpose of {}/ in the find statement that you provided me. Can you please explain its purpose. I'm hoping that if I can understand this it will help me figure out how to separate the find results into two different columns, one for the directory and one for the grep result.

Thank you in advance.

{} stands for what would return find, that is, here, directories names.