du display the actual file space usage.. you can use du.. just look for option like -g or -h to get the desired output.. read man page I am sure it has go some option..
the
command drills down all sub-directories which I do not want. I just want to see all directories in the parent directory and not drill further down. Also, it does not show me in MBs.
We have SCO Unix (realease 5.0.5b),
Please advise which files can be safely deleted on the system root folder / to create space? These are mainly spool/message/history etc log files. Where they located and can they be deleted using rm?
The server has been operational for the past 4 years.
... (17 Replies)
Hello All,
I am getting error while passing a folder name that has space to the cmd line argument.
sh log_delete2.sh "/home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A RM"
log_delete2.sh: line 17: cd: /home/kumarpua/TESTARTIFACTS/atf-chix/ATF-subversion-dev/ssenglogs/A:... (3 Replies)
hi
my folder name is below
FTP_DIR="/DATA/TEMP/PA Mthly and Qrty files"
But when i am using the varaible in my ftp shel script i am getting the error
'/DATA/TEMP/VA: The system cannot find the path specified
please advice.
thanks in advance
sam (2 Replies)
Hi , I was wondering if anyone knows any great ways for creating space in your Root Folder.
My root folder was created with only 247.7MB & I found out that its now full & I was initially wondering how important the "thumbnails Folder" was & if it was alright to delete their contenses as I noticed... (2 Replies)
A solaris server with SAMBA share folder. The PC users created many folders with space on it, I want to find them out, but not list its subfolders.
For example, I have below folders
Copy of ABC/efg/xy
sa/Test again/xyt
If I use command: find . -type d |grep " " I will list 6 folders, but... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I've got a process failure which says it may be caused by insufficient space in the directory. Is there a way I can tell what the maximum allowable size is?
I've done df -k and there are no file systems over 45% so if it is a space problem it's confined to the sub directory. (4 Replies)
Please help ,
I am in an urgent need, Please help
nawk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){printf("%s\n",$i)}}' filename | sed 's/.*com//' | nawk '/pdf/ {printf("F:%s\n",$0)}' | while read line; do mv $line /images/; done
the above script works for without spaces but,My path is also having some space... (3 Replies)
I have a folder that contains many sub folders and files. This tree has to be backed up to an archive system. According to the tech support, one of the archives is failing to back up due to the possibility of trailing spaces on file and folder names. Therefore, I would like to have a script... (16 Replies)
I want to move a folder with spaces from one folder to another.
I have two folders like this,
1).RT_032-222 -4444-01/ 2). RT_032-555 -7777-01/
I want to move files from 2 to 1 through shell script.Here I want to assign this like a user defined variable like as Source branch... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)