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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I need to compare the size of a file to what it's size was 20min ago. So far my outline script is:ls -ls /home > filesizeafter.txt
compare filesizeafter.txt filesizebefore.txt > filesizechange.txt
if /home filesizechange.txt > 100 {
email root;
}
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2. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I was just curious about how to sum the total file size of a certain type of file. For instance:
$find . -name "*.aif"
will print out the paths to each .aif file. Instead of printing, how could one sum the total space used by all of the aif files? Thanks!
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3. Programming
I was trying to figure out how to write a shell script to be able to print the name of the file and size to a text file I wanted to know if I was on the right track and am understanding this better.
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi ,
I have some 10 files where i need to check the size of each and every file...if the size of the file is 0...I shud send out an email mentioning which file is actually of 0KB size..
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone!
I need to compare two file sizes.
One of them (size) will be stored in a flat file and the other coming from a listed file.
I can now get the first file size using:
SIZE=`ls -l $DOCTYPE | awk '{print $5}'`
1. How can I store this value in a flat file?
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 2 big files in the size of gb. They are same with respect to content, both are “,” delimited. Now both of them are created by two different processes but has the same logic. The problem is they are differing only in few bytes for e.g one file is 202195751 bytes other is 202195773. So... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I just noticed that the copy of a file I made is smaller than the original, although I hardly made any changes to it. Can anyone tell me what determines the size of files? They're all .doc files (saved in NeoOffice). It's really frustrating, because I'm using them to respond to job ads and the... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
ls -l * | sed 's/\+/ /g' | cut -f5 -d " " >out1
ls -l * | sed 's/\+/ /g' | cut -f5 -d " " >out2
diff out1 out2
i tried this it will work fine and i can see difference
but i need a script which should neglect, if the difference b/w files is small
and
it should display... (5 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi I need to take a list of files that are defined by an ls -ltr or grep for particular file names - and add up the byte size colum which is field 5 seperated by a space.
I tried to do this but I think I am way off:
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a command that will return the name of the largest file within a directory? If so, can I set the returned filename into a variable? (4 Replies)
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