Unix script help needed

[selenay]

I have hit a brick wall and any help that can be offered would be gratefully appreciated. My Google-fu isn't up to the task, we have no reference books on Unix scripting here ("here's a card with basic Unix commands - have fun!"), my local library has no books on Unix scripting and I haven't got five days for Canada Post to lose deliver an Amazon order of books for me.

I'm attempting to loop through some files in a directory, count the number of files that contain a particular word sequence and put that count into a file that I can then email. All the filenames that I am searching begin with 'O'. So far, if I cd to the directory and put this into the command line it works:

print cat O* | grep -c 'XXXX_PROD' >> test.log

My log file correct shows a count of 2.

When I do the same thing in my script and run it, I get big fat zeros in my report :-(

cd $LOGDIR1
print $PWD >> $REP
print "Count of XXXX_PROD jobs run (test only):" >> $REP
print cat O* | grep -c 'XXXX_PROD' >> $REP

According to my log, I've cd'd to the correct directory. I've tried using $LOGDIR1/O* with no luck.

Can anyone point me to some resources that might help? If it helps, I would appear to be using the Korn shell in this installation of Unix. The mere fact that I've had to write "appear to be using" should tell you how much I actually know about Unix :-(

Comments

[selenay]

The cat/grep combo works fine when I type it into the command line, it's when I put exactly the same thing into a script that it all falls over. And I have no idea why :-( The cat was the only way that I could find (using Google-fu) to get the count of the number of lines rather than a huge list of file names with a count for each.

This really isn't my thing. And my boss cheerfully expects me to have the entire script tested and ready to go by end of play today. Um, I think not, somehow.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure cat is counting the right thing but that's probably my understanding.

Let me see who's in along the way, I'm sure my neighbour Dave will know and he was in earlier... Back soonish!

[gmul.livejournal.com]

The committee here also came up with the wc mentioned below, we just spent too long talking about bikes for me to get back and post it. :-)

[selenay]

Heh :-) Thanks for trying - at least you got a fun afternoon out of it!