1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have never used this command before. I need to use the "compress" command to compress all files located in the subdirectories under the following directories: /home/ftp/inbound/Fordin Please advise, I appreciate your help. Thanks, Syed (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i have written a script in unix which produces two files(.csv file) at the end. Now i want to add these to files in a zip file and send the zip file across the network by FTP. Problem is that i dunno how to make a single zip file containing the two files that have been created by the script.... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, let say I have file having name "skp 27.doc". There is space between skp and 27. now I want to rename this file . So please let me know how is it possible? one more issue ............. let say a=5 echo $a output is 5. Again a= 4 echo $a wha will be the output? (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a pretty large directory on a backup hard drive. I have Tiger for an OS, what would be the best way to compress this directory. there is a large number of files inside in addition if that makes a difference any help appreciated hopefully thanks in advance (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Could someone help with the easiest command to compress several directories and files? For example, I want two directories: /var/www/logs/ and /var/www/zones/ and this file: /var/www/messages to be compressed by tar/zip to a specific output directory like: /var/www/backup.extension ... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All My first post in the forum. :) I've this huge log files of size 20GB-30 GB in my unix server. I want to analyse the log file for some error messages. But because of the enormity of the size of these files i'm not able to grep/search the pattern in the file . Also, tried to gzip the... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to make a unix shell script that will make 99 folders 99 deep (counting the first level folders). So far i have made it make the first 99 folders and 99 more in all of the folders. The only problem is the only way i have found is copying and pasting part of the script over and over and... (18 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello again, A little while back I got help with creating a command to search all directories and sub directories for files from daystart of day x. I'm wondering if there is a command that I've overlooked that may be able to search for / write folder names to an output file which ideally... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following script to archive and compress the zip files created by my jira application, on a daily basis. But the compression seems to be not working. Each zip file is of size 103 MB. When I archive it, its coming close to 3-4 gb. But when I use gunzip or bzip2 the size is not getting... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need help to do a script that will compress a file that's bigger than 5000 octets and won't overwrite the previous compress file. lets say I have mylogfile.log and I would compress it I would become mylogfile. 1. log and if I would compress again mylogfile.log it would be mylogfile. 2.... (8 Replies)