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Directory Traversal Examples

The following examples illustrate various pathnames you can specify as input to AIFSYSWIDEGET and the format of the names you will receive as output from AIFSYSWIDEGET. The examples assume the following directory structure.

Level 1                                  /



           +-------------+---------------+----------------+-------------+

           |             |               |                |             |

Level 2  3000devs  . .  SYS            SYSUTIL         TELESUP  . .    TEST

                                         |

                              +---------------------+

                              |                     |

Level 3                     MPEXL                 POSIX

                              |                     |

                              +-A1002TST            +-tstdir

                              +-CLKPROG                 |

                              +-DISCUTIL                +-this_is_another_dir

                              +-DTSINFO                 |           |

                              +-IOMACS                  +-tstfile   |

                              +-KSCHKXL                           +-----+

                              +-LIFUTIL                           |     |

                              +-MIRCHECK                          f1    f2

                              +-MIRRDOC

                              +-SYSWIDEP

                              +-TBLMON

                              +-UTILTRK1

                              +-VSMMAP

                              +-tools_directory

                                      |

                              +------------------+

                              |                  |

                        mpe_tools_dir       unix_tools_dir

                              |                  |

                              +-flutil           +-grep

                              +-fstool           +-vi

Absolute Pathnames With Recursion

The following three examples illustrate the absolute pathnames that would be returned by AIFSYSWIDEGET if an absolute pathname was specified as the fileset for item 5036. Assume that SYSWIDEP is a program which calls AIFSYSWIDEGET and passes in the recursion level input by the user as item 5041.

:CHGROUP MPEXL

:RUN SYSWIDEP



Path? >/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/@

Recursion level? >99



/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/A1002TST                                  

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/CLKPROG                                  

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/DISCUTIL                               

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/DTSINFO                               

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/IOMACS                               

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/KSCHKXL                           

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/LIFUTIL                               

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/MIRCHECK                            

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/MIRRDOC                           

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/SYSWIDEP                        

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/TBLMON                        

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/UTILTRK1              

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/VSMMAP                                   

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory                         

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/.                      

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/..                    

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir            

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/.       

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/..     

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/flutil

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/fstool

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir     

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/.  

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/..

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/grep   

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/vi    

END OF PROGRAM                                     








:RUN SYSWIDEP



Path? >/SYSUTIL/@/@dir@

Recursion level? >99

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory                    

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/.                 

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/..               

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir   

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/.

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/..         

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/flutil    

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/fstool   

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir        

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/.     

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/..   

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/grep

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/unix_tools_dir/vi      

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir                                

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/.                             

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/..                           

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir         

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/.      

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/..    

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/f1   

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/f2         

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/tstfile                       

END OF PROGRAM                                     





:RUN SYSWIDEP



Path? >/SYSUTIL/@/@dir@/@/f@

Recursion level? >99



/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/flutil      

/SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/mpe_tools_dir/fstool     

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/f1           

/SYSUTIL/POSIX/tstdir/this_is_another_dir/f2          

END OF PROGRAM                                       


Pathnames Relative to CWD With No Recursion

The following three examples illustrate the relative pathnames that would be returned by AIFSYSWIDEGET if a relative pathname was specified as the fileset for item 5036.

:RUN SYSWIDEP



Path? >./@

Recursion level? >0



./A1002TST                                     

./CLKPROG                                     

./DISCUTIL                                   

./DTSINFO                                   

./IOMACS                                   

./KSCHKXL                                 

./LIFUTIL                                

./MIRCHECK                              

./MIRRDOC                              

./SYSWIDEP                                        

./TBLMON                                         

./UTILTRK1                                      

./VSMMAP                                       

./tools_directory                             

END OF PROGRAM                               



:CHDIR /SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory



:RUN SYSWIDEP.MPEXL



Path? >./@

Recursion level? >0



./.                                         

./..                                       

./mpe_tools_dir                           

./unix_tools_dir                         

END OF PROGRAM                          








:RUN SYSWIDEP.MPEXL



Path? >./@

Recursion level? >99



./.                                    

./.                                   

./..                                 

./mpe_tools_dir                     

./mpe_tools_dir/.                  

./mpe_tools_dir/..                

./mpe_tools_dir/flutil           

./mpe_tools_dir/fstool          

./unix_tools_dir               

./unix_tools_dir/.            

./unix_tools_dir/..                                 

./unix_tools_dir/grep                              

./unix_tools_dir/vi                               

END OF PROGRAM                                   






What Are '.' and '..' Files?

File names represented by a dot (.) or two dots (..) are directory files which in the above example represent the current directory and the parent of the current directory respectively. The current directory or the parent directory may refer to an HFS directory file or to an MPE directory node (for example, $FILESET_NODE, $GROUP_NODE).

For example, using the directory structure shown above, the following files refer to MPE directory structures:

 

   /SYSUTIL/MPEXL/.                   <- refers to $FILESET_NODE.MPEXL.SYSUTIL

   /SYSUTIL/MPEXL/tools_directory/..  <- refers to $FILESET_NODE.MPEXL.SYSUTIL

These files are not shown by a LISTFILE command, but they are returned by AIFSYSWIDEGET.

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