Better Align--output of find command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

i have sh program which search for a file in a folder structure and provides its path. This is just used to see if that file exits more that once anywhere down the folder structure. I have used find command to search & printing it output on terminal.

I have attached screen shot of it. only help i need is to make is better aligned which i am not able to do it.

clear
search_folder=/home/pks/Desktop # Folder in which i am searching
while read line;
do
echo File name is:-$line -- `find $search_folder -name $line` # finding the file name from office.txt in search folder.
done < /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt # File from which i am reading
2

What would you call "better aligned"? An output sample would seriously help here.

And, wouldn't it be better to traverse the directory structure just once in lieu of doing it for every line in office.txt, running the risk of find ing more than one file? Think about find ing all files under the search_folder, piping them to an awk script that filters and formats?

3

Sorry..it just been few days(max 5 days) working with shell. Dont know awk but will try hand on that for sure.

Better aligned means better or proper spacing to make them look better for reading and understnding :-
I am just writing space to make my point because when i am submitting tab is getting auto removed in the forum.

File name is:- Hello.txt{SPACE}--/home/pks/Destop/sumit/Dirty/empty_dir/empty.file{Space}/home/pks/Desktop/sumit/empty.file 
File name is:- HelloWorld.py{ }--/home/pks/Destop/sumit/Dirty/HelloWorld.py{Space Space }/home/pks/Desktop/sumit/HelloWorld.py
4

Have you checked printf ? Search for it.

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5

Hi,

Thanks....i am trying with printf command & hopefully i will make it the way i want it.

PKS

6

Hi,

I have checked with printf and tried everything but still the output is not as i am expecting but it 90% correct

in attached screen shot if you will see it is adding tab before printing both the output but not in next line. it is showing two type of put put line 1 & 4 is one way rest all line is another way. there is something wrong with TAB but not able to find what.

clear
search_folder=/home/pks/Desktop
while read line;
do
printf "%s\t %s\t" "File:-$line" `find $search_folder -name $line -type f`
done < /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt # > output.txt
7

Try:

while read file
do
  printf "File:-%s" "$file" 
  find "$search_folder" -name "$file" -type f | 
  while read path
  do
    printf "\t%s" "$path"
  done
  echo
done < /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt

---
Or with awk:

find "$search_folder" -type f |
awk '
  NR==FNR {
    A[$0]
    next
  }
  $NF in A {
    A[$NF]=A[$NF] OFS $0
  }
  END {
    for(i in A) printf "File:-%s%s\n",i,A
  }
' FS=/ OFS='\t' /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt -
8

Have a try with:

search_in=/home/sea/net/web
data="$(find $search_in -type f)"
while read item;do
  printf "\n%s\t %s\t" "File: $item" $(echo "$data"| grep ${item##*/})
  echo
done<<<"$data"

hth

9

[quote=scrutinizer;302943924]
Try:

while read file
do
  printf "File:-%s" "$file" 
  find "$search_folder" -name "$file" -type f | 
  while read path
  do
    printf "\t%s" "$path"
  done
  echo
done < /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt

---

I tried with above code....result is same as i have shared in my last post. Attaching new result again.

10

This is also not working.

---------- Post updated at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:19 PM ----------

Hi All,

i think i ll have to live with this out put until i find some alternative or other way. I ll keep trying & i ll share it with you guys when it will work as the way i want.

Thanks everyone for all your support.:b:

Note:- i am closing this thread as solved as i got enough to carry on my learning & fun work

PKS

11

Try formatted output, adapt field lengths if need be:

while read file
do
  printf "File: - %-15s --" "$file" 
  find "$search_folder" -name "$file" -type f | 
  while read path
  do
    printf " %50s" "$path"
  done
  echo
done < /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt

or, adapting Scrutinizer's awk approach, try

find "$search_folder" -type f | awk '
NR==FNR         {A[$0]
                 next
                }
$NF in A        {A[$NF]=sprintf ("%s\t%50s", A[$NF], $0)
                }
END             {for(i in A) printf "File:-%-15s -- %s\n",i,A
                }
' FS=/  /home/pks/Desktop/office.txt -