Kbase 18899: How To Find A File Under VAX VMS
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/16/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to locate a file under VAX VMS.
FACT(s) (Environment):
OpenVMS
FIX:
Step by step details:
1) Determine what disks are available on the system:
SHOW DEVICE D
2) Set privileges to allow examination of every directory on each disk:
SET PROCESS/PRIV=BYPASS or SET PROCESS/PRIV=READALL
The difference here is that BYPASS will allow modification of any file, whereas READALL only allows reads to the files.
3) Find the desired files:
DIR DUAn:[000000...]*.CFG
File specifiers may use * (matches any number of characters) and/or % (matches one character).
An alternative to this, if a number of files need to be located, is to send the output of the DIR command to a file and then scan the file using a text editor, or use the VMS SEARCH command:
DIR/OUTPUT=myfile.txt DUA0:[000000...]*PRO*.EXE
EDIT/EDT myfile.txt
EDIT/TPU myfile.txt (if you don't have EDT)
SEARCH myfile.txt PROSRV,PROGRES
The SEARCH program is less sophisticated than UNIX grep, but it is useful for basic searches.