1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Greetings! Does anyone know of a utility or a script for renaming files on a UNIX web server? I've seen several of these types of renaming utilities for Windows, but none for UNIX. I have 10,000 files that I need to rename in a several tier (deep) web site directory. I have the original... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am using rsync to make sure that my folder "local" mirrors the remote directory "remote". When a file is copied from "remote" to "local", I need to apply a bash script to it. What would be a neat way to do that? Thanks ps: is there a way to edit the title of the thread (I am a bit... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings! Does anyone know of a utility or a script for renaming files on a UNIX web server? I've seen several of these types of renaming utilities for Windows, but none for UNIX. I have 10,000 files that I need to rename in a several tier (deep) web site directory. I have the original... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to zip/compress a data file and send to a vendor. The vendor does have only unzip utility and can accept only .ZIP files. I do not have zip utility in my server. How do I zip/compress the file so that it can be deflated using unzip command ? I tried gzip & compress commands, but... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am looking to use rsync in a very specific way, and even though I have trawled the rsync man pages I have not succeeded in seeing a way of doing the following: The temporary files created by rsync should not be created in the destination directory. (I have used --temp-dir option to... (0 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi This is my situation I have files on the left which I want to copy to the right. Once the files are copied to the right, they are processed and then deleted. The next time rsync runs I dont want it to copy the same files again, it should only copy any new files to the right. I have been... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all. I'm new to this forum and Linux in general. Last month I ran into a problem at work and never got around to solving it. We have an old Linux workstation that synchs its time to a Windows XP machine running w32time. The version of ntpdate is 4.2.0.a running on Linux kernel 2.6.17.6. It... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody, I sent some files a remote server using simple ssh command line: rsync -e 'ssh -p SSH-PORT' -vr --log-file=/var/log/rsync.log /home/USER/www/* USER@IP:/home/USER/www Then I would like to check if files in server1 are the same, file size check or any other way to make... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I Have a requirement where i have to sync two directories one on source location server A and other on destination location server B as i do not have ssh access from server A----------->B I am doing rsync from server B, The Requirement is as follows Two directories on the source and... (4 Replies)

10. Ubuntu

I use this rsync --progress -r -u /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/* /home/andy/Ubuntu_18.04_Programs/Is there a way to have it not copy files such as these? 2019-02-25_11:04 I found this but can not figure out what it's doing. 3. Exclude a specific file To exclude a... (5 Replies)