"mput *" is expanded in the shell, before it is executed, to "mput file1 file2 file3 ..." There is generally a limit of 32K or so for how long the line can be, which is why you get this error when trying to match * for thousands of files.
I'm not familiar with mput. Is it possible for it to take a list of files instead of arguments on the commandline? You could just do "ls > /tmp/filelist" to make the list.
You can also use xargs to split down that monolilthic list into more manageable batches. Keep the batches large enough and it shouldn't be too much slower. Try this:
ls will list the files one per line, xargs will group them together in batches of 100 and call 'mput file1 file2 file3 ... file100' for each batch.
Hi,
I would like to write a shell script that moves files from one folder to another without retrieving the error 'can not acces/find file or folder' when the source folder is empty.
Any ideas,
Thx in advance,
Steven. (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to find a specific pattern from approximately 400000 files on solaris platform. Its very heavy for me to grep that pattern to each file individually.
Can anybody suggest me some way to search for specific pattern (alpha numeric) from these forty thousand files. Please note that... (6 Replies)
hi ,
i have one file ,i need to search particular word from this file and if content is matched then echo MATCHED else NOT MATCHED
file contains : mr x planned to score 75% in exam but end up with 74%.
word to be searched id 75%
please help me out .
waiting for reply
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
There is a procedure I do here at work where I have to synchronize file systems. The source file system always has three or four directories of hundreds of thousands of tiny (1k or smaller) or empty files. Whenever my rsync command reaches these directories, I'm waiting for hours for those files... (3 Replies)
I need to find a smarter way to process about 60,000 files in a single directory.
Every night a script runs on each file generating a output on another directory; this used to take 5 hours, but as the data grows it is taking 7 hours.
The files are of different sizes, but there are 16 cores... (10 Replies)
I'm kinda stuck on this one, I have 7 files with 30.000 lines/file like this
050 0.023 0.504336
050 0.024 0.529521
050 0.025 0.538908
050 0.026 0.537035
I want to find the mean line by line of the third column from the files named like this:
Stat-f-1.dat .... Stat-f-7.dat
Stat-s-1.dat... (8 Replies)
Hello All
I have below code snippet
/usr/bin/ftp -niv $ftphost 1>&2 >> $upload_log <<EndFtp
quote user $ftp_user
quote pass $ftp_pass
cd $ftp_dir
put $upload_file
When i pass a wrong ftphost as a paramater, output is "ftp: abc.net: Name or service not known". (abc.net is the... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to search for a certain string in thousands of files and these files are distributed over different directories created daily. For that I created a small script in bash but while running it I am getting the below error:
/ms.sh: xrealloc: subst.c:5173: cannot allocate... (17 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am trying to copy files using FTP but I get this error:
Arguments to long...
I read that I can copy files in batches...How can I copy those files in batches?
I am currently using mget A*.csv B*.csv C*.csv, etc up to a certain letter then when its done i will continue.
Is... (1 Reply)
Hi to all,
I have thousand of files in a folder with names with format "FILE-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM" for what I want to send the following AWK command
awk '/Code.*/' FILE-2014*
I'd like to separate all files that have the same date to a folder named with the corresponding date. For example, if I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ophiuchus
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
merge
MERGE(1) General Commands Manual MERGE(1)NAME
merge - three-way file merge
SYNOPSIS
merge [ options ] file1 file2 file3
DESCRIPTION
merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. The result ordinarily goes into file1. merge is useful for com-
bining separate changes to an original. Suppose file2 is the original, and both file1 and file3 are modifications of file2. Then merge
combines both changes.
A conflict occurs if both file1 and file3 have changes in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, merge normally outputs a
warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and >>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this:
<<<<<<< file A
lines in file A
=======
lines in file B
>>>>>>> file B
If there are conflicts, the user should edit the result and delete one of the alternatives.
OPTIONS -A Output conflicts using the -A style of diff3(1), if supported by diff3. This merges all changes leading from file2 to file3 into
file1, and generates the most verbose output.
-E, -e These options specify conflict styles that generate less information than -A. See diff3(1) for details. The default is -E. With
-e, merge does not warn about conflicts.
-L label
This option may be given up to three times, and specifies labels to be used in place of the corresponding file names in conflict
reports. That is, merge -L x -L y -L z a b c generates output that looks like it came from files x, y and z instead of from files
a, b and c.
-p Send results to standard output instead of overwriting file1.
-q Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. -V Print 's version number.
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no conflicts, 1 for some conflicts, 2 for trouble.
IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy.
Manual Page Revision: 1.1.1.1; Release Date: 2002/04/30.
Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy.
Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert.
SEE ALSO diff3(1), diff(1), rcsmerge(1), co(1).
BUGS
It normally does not make sense to merge binary files as if they were text, but merge tries to do it anyway.
GNU 2002/04/30 MERGE(1)