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Old 08-10-2008, 09:41 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
4. the files are created, but both are empty.

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At this point, I am suspecting that the manifet.xml of my target files are somehow wrong? I can try to upload an example doc tomorrow.
match.tmp is a list of manifest files to check, so if that is empty it suggests that it is not even finding any manifest files. One thing that springs to mind now that you mention windows is case sensitivity. manifest.xml != manifest.XML and I think I have seen some windows programs cause the extension to be uppercase. The find command that I use only searches manifest.xml files (lower case extension).
Code:
find "$STARTDIR" -type f -name 'manifest.xml' > match.tmp
That would explain why match.tmp is empty. There's not actually much that can go wrong in this command: either the STARTDIR (starting directory) is wrong, or there are no files named 'manifest.xml'. Can you verify the case of the extension?
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