Current Supported Releases: Sablime^® v6.0 & v5.2

NAME
     sfile - expand SBCS file arguments

SYNOPSIS
     sfile [-agrR] s-file ...

DESCRIPTION
     sfile is an SBCS utility program that uses the SBCS environ-
     ment to resolve s-file arguments. The s-files themselves are
     not affected.

     SBCS commands use a number of methods to  resolve  their  s-
     file arguments into actual s-files.  The methods include (1)
     resolving directories into the  s-files  they  contain,  (2)
     resolving directories recursively, (3) automatically prefix-
     ing names to match expected s-files, and (4) using knowledge
     about any separate s-file source tree that may be defined in
     the SBCS environment (see sbcsenv(1)).

     If sfile does find a match, it interprets the argument as  a
     new  s-file  and returns the path of the new s-file.  There-
     fore an s-file name returned by sfile does not always  imply
     that  the  file  actually exists, only that that is where an
     SBCS command would expect to find one or create one.

OPTION
     -a   Print absolute path names, starting from root (/).

     -g   Print the g-file (work files) names, instead of the  s-
          file  names.  When a source tree is used, SBCS commands
          expect g-file names to specify the s-files; sfile -g]f1
          should then be used.

     -r   Print a relative path names, using the  "../"  notation
          for files not under the current node.  The default is a
          "best" format that uses one  of  absolute  or  relative
          addresses depending on the complexity of the path.

     -R   Descend  recursively  into  any   directory   argument,
          searching for s-files.

EXAMPLE
     Suppose a large number of files are retrieved from a  source
     tree using
          nget -eR .
     and that after editing all are returned to create new deltas
     using
          ndelta -y- -R .
     It could be a lot of work to remove this last  delta  across
     all  the  files  returned,  because nrmdel requires that the
     delta be specified on the command line, and that delta could
     be  different  for  different  files.   A small sh(1) script

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     based on sfile can be used to solve this problem:
          for f in `sfile -gR .`
          do
               r=`nget -g $f`
               nrmdel -r$r $f
          done

DIAGNOSTICS
     Warning and error messages have error codes that can be used
     with nhelp for a more detailed explanation.

SEE ALSO
     nadmin(1), nget(1), ndelta(1), nrmdel(1),  nget(1),  psd(1),
     sbcsenv(1).

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