Are you looking to remove all instances of files that follow a certain pattern (i.e. RAF.0*)...or are you looking to remove only some of the files that follow the pattern? Expand on what you mean by a certain number of files.....
Also are all the files going to be in the same directory?
If you want to remove from one directory....and all files that are RAF.0*....then you don't need a script you can just use
If you can give us a bit more info....that would help./.
Some simple questions from a simple man.
If i wanted to count the number of files contained within a directory, say /tmp would ls -l /tmp ¦ wc -l suffice and will it be accurate?
second one: How would i check the number of files with a certain string in the filename, in the same directory.
... (2 Replies)
I want to count the no of lines for files (.c and .h) present in a directory structure.
My code is:
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: linecount.sh directory_name
for file in $(find $1 -name ); do
wc -l "$file" >> filecount.txt
done
Problem is that the directory structure is really big... (3 Replies)
I have 20 files in a direcotry like BARE01_DLY_MKT_YYYYMMDD. The MKT differes for all these files but the remaining syntax remains the same for a particular day. If I am checking for today I need to make sure that there are 20 files that start with BARE01_DLY_MKT_20060720. How can I write a... (31 Replies)
Hi,
I have to write a KSH script to loop through the directory and transfer all the files through FTP. The source machine is the Network shared drive and the files in the directory needs to be FTPied to the UNIX server.
For eg. Directory (Datasource)
+ Directory1
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i am very new to UNIX, i am trying to loop thru the files in a directory.
I got the filenames into a variable using
$files=`ls`
Here $files will contain
<filename1> <filename2> <filename3>
I want to get one filename at a time and append it to some some text.
forexample, ... (1 Reply)
I have three different linux command scripts that I run for 20+ files in one directory.
it goes like this
FIRST SCRIPT:
grep 'something' -w file > newfile1
.
.
.
grep 'something -w file > newfile20
then I take all these 'newfileN' and run this:
awk 'BEGIN {... (20 Replies)
Hi all,
Need some help counting files... :)
I'm trying to count the number of files in a given directory (and subdirectories) which reportedly contains "thousands" of files.
I'm using this:
ls -R | wc -l
However it's been an hour and looks like it's still running; there is no output... (18 Replies)
I am trying to display the output of ls and also print the number of characters in EVERY file name. This is what I have so far:
#!/bin/sh
for x in `ls`; do
echo The number of characters in x | wc -m
done
Any help appreciated (1 Reply)
So I have a loop that stated if a directory exists or not. If it does it prints the number of files within that directory. I use this code...
result=`(ls -l . | egrep -c '^-')`
However, no matter which directory I input, it outputs the number "2"
What is wrong here? (4 Replies)
Hello,
I`m a complete newbie to coding, please help with this problem.
I have multiple files in a directory, I have to loop through the contents of each file and extract number of unique isoforms in that file. Each file is tab delimited and only the line with the first parent (column 3)... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ritakadm
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remove
remove(3C) Standard C Library Functions remove(3C)NAME
remove - remove file
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int remove(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The remove() function causes the file or empty directory whose name is the string pointed to by path to be no longer accessible by that
name. A subsequent attempt to open that file using that name will fail, unless the file is created anew.
For files, remove() is identical to unlink(). For directories, remove() is identical to rmdir().
See rmdir(2) and unlink(2) for a detailed list of failure conditions.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, remove() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate an error.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO rmdir(2), unlink(2), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 remove(3C)