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Amit Singh Tomar
Amit Singh Tomar

Reputation: 8610

How this command find a file in Rpm package

I have given command which will find a particular file named /etc/limits in one of rpm package insatlled but when run on my system getting error not the desired result. Below is the command

find . -name '*.rpm' | while read A; do $RPM -qpl $A | grep etc/limits; \
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $A; fi; done
/etc/limits

When I run this command getting below error 

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `/etc/limits'

Could anybody tell me what is going wrong here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1761

Answers (1)

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123468

It's evident that your while loop takes input from find so you don't need /etc/limits after done in your script. Saying:

find . -name '*.rpm' | while read A; do
  $RPM -qpl $A | grep /etc/limits;
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $A; fi;
done

should work. If you wanted to make the while loop read from a file you'd have said:

while read A; do ... done < /path/to/input/file

Upvotes: 1

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