As Perderabo siad the + is a useful option if available, and is in POSIX but not implemented by all versions of find, most noticeably ( for a lot of people ) it is not found in the GNU version of find
Hi
I need to move multiple (say 10 files) from one location to another location. My selection would be like this...
ls -ltr *.arc | head ---> Need to move top 10 files with single command without iterating in loop. I know we can move files like this with find command but not sure if I can... (4 Replies)
What I'm trying to do is perform a copy, well a ditto actually, on the results of a find command, but some inline string substitution needs to happen.
So if I run this code find ./ -name "*.tif" I get back these results.
.//1234567.tif
.//abcdefg.tif
Now the action from exec or xargs I... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Can somebody explain what is the difference in the below commands.. when using Xargs its giving all the hidden files and is it something xargs will do recursive searching or parsing ?
find . -type f -links 1 | xargs ls -li
find . -type f -links 1 | ls -li (1 Reply)
Hey all. Just a fast question, what is the technical difference between using back ticks and using xargs to perform a command?
Here's an example
Find /mydir -name *.conf |xargs rm
Vs
Rm 'find /mydir -name *.conf'
Is there a performance hit? I know they do the same thing but which is... (1 Reply)
I have read several docs on these on the web and looked at examples. I can't figure out the difference. In some cases you use one or the other or you combine them.
can someone help me understand this? (1 Reply)
I have the following bash script lines in a file named test.sh.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Write Date to cron.log
#
echo "Begin SSI Load $(date +%d%b%y_%T)"
#
# Get the latest rates file for processing.
#
d=$(ls -tr /rms/data/ssi | grep -v "processed" | tail -n 1)
filename=$d
export filename... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
i'm trying to create a tar of all the .txt files i find in my dir . I've used xargs to acheive this but i wanted to do this with exec and looks like it only archives the last file it finds . can some one advice what's wrong here :
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0... (9 Replies)
Hi,
What is the difference between the following commands
find . -type f -exec grep 'abc' {} \;
and
find . -type f | xargs grep 'abc'
Appreciate your help. (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to move all the file listed by below command to /tmp/testing directory
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +3
I tried using -exec and xargs - none of the combination is working?
Please, help (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: saurabh84g
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confstr
CONFSTR(3) Linux Programmer's Manual CONFSTR(3)NAME
confstr - get configuration dependent string variables
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
size_t confstr(int name, char *buf, size_t len);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
confstr(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 2 || _XOPEN_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
confstr() gets the value of configuration-dependent string variables.
The name argument is the system variable to be queried. The following variables are supported:
_CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION (GNU C library only; since glibc 2.3.2)
A string which identifies the GNU C library version on this system (e.g., "glibc 2.3.4").
_CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION (GNU C library only; since glibc 2.3.2)
A string which identifies the POSIX implementation supplied by this C library (e.g., "NPTL 2.3.4" or "linuxthreads-0.10").
_CS_PATH
A value for the PATH variable which indicates where all the POSIX.2 standard utilities can be found.
If buf is not NULL and len is not zero, confstr() copies the value of the string to buf truncated to len - 1 bytes if necessary, with a
null byte ('