Script to recursively grep data from certain files in the directory
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I am making a simple shell script which will minimize the time I spend in searching all directories under a parent directory and grep some things inside some files. Here's my script.
#!/bin/sh
MainDir=/var/opt/database/1227-1239/
cd "$MainDir"
for dir in $(ls); do
grep -i "STAGE,te_start_seq Starting" "$dir"/his_file | tail -1 >> /home/xtee/sst-logs.out
if [ -f "$dir"/sysconfig.out];
then
grep -A 1 "Drive Model" "$dir"/sysconfig.out | tail -1 >> /home/xtee/sst-logs.out
else
grep -m 1 "Physical memory size" "$dir"/node0/setupsys.out | tail -1 >> /home/xtee/sst-logs.out
fi
done
The script is supposed to grep the string STAGE,te_start_seq Starting
under the file his_file
then dump it sst-logs.out
which it does. My problem though is the part in the if
statement. The script should check the current directory for sysconfig.out
, grep drive model
and dump it to sst-logs.out
if it exists, otherwise, change directory to node0
then grep physical memory size
from setupsys.out
and dump it to sst-logs.out
. My problem is, it seems the if then else
statement seems not to work as it doesn`t dump any data at all but if i execute grep manually, i do have data.
What is wrong with my shell script? Is there any more efficient way in doing this?
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