Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Testing for non-empty wildcards
Message-ID: <1988Dec26.094726.10596@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 26 Dec 88 14:47:25 GMT
References: <502@alice.marlow.uucp> <26270004@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 26

According to shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni):
>
>    find sccs -name 'p.*' -print | while read file
>	do
>	    # list of commands on $file
>	done

Or:

    them="`find SCCS -name "p.*" -print | sed 's#^SCCS/p\.##`"
    if [ ! "$them" ]
    then
	echo "Nothing is checked out!"
    else
	for f in $them
	do
	    get -s -p SCCS/s.$f | diff - $f
	done
    fi

This has the nice feature of collecting all the names into a variable for
examination and possible re-use.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering             Me?  Speak for my company?  Surely you jest!
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