You need a space between the " and the ] in:
Perhaps it would be easier for everyone if you familiarized yourself with the syntax of the shell you are using, rather than going back and forth dozens of times about tiny syntax problems. I'm not trying to be rude, just thinking that spooning tiny little pieces to you is less helpful than your taking the time to understand the general concepts of the environment in which you are programming. I've found that many of the experts here tend to give general solutions as a starting point to help you understand your specific problems, which is much more productive than debugging the same script multiple times.
I am trying to write a script that will look for a file in a directory, then remove it. I need it to loop until it has removed a certain number of files. Is it better to do a repeat or to list each file in a pattern? Files will be numbered like RAF.01.*, RAF.02.*, etc. Thanks, James (6 Replies)
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.
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Hi,
I have to copy a set of files abc* in /path/ to /path1/ as abc*_bkp.
The list of files appear as follows in /path/:
abc1
xyszd
abc2
re2345
abcx
..
.
abcxyz
I have to copy them (abc* files only) into /path1/ as:
abc1_bkp
abc2_bkp
abcx_bkp
..
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I have 10 appservers and each appserver has 4 jvms . Each of these logs is archived and stored on a nfs directory . For example the files are
/logs/200907/ap1-jvm1.server.log.20090715.gz
/logs/200907/ap2-jvm2.server.log.20090714.gz
/logs/200908/ap1-jvm1.server.log.20090812.gz
I want to... (3 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)
I have a file of 1.3 millions lines.
some are with the same word twice on the line, some line have two diffrent words.
each line has two words, one in brackets.
example:
foo (foo)
bar (bar)
thae (awvd)
beladf (vswvw)
I am sure this can be done with one line of... (6 Replies)
Im using the command below , but thats not the output that i want. it only prints the odd and even numbers.
awk '{if(NR%2){print $0 > "1"}else{print $0 > "2"}}'
Im hoping for something like this
file1:
Text hi this is just a test
text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6
Text hi... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need a ksh script to replace indirect directory references in an .ini file with a env variable using sed or awk.
The .ini file is for example as such:
A=..
B=../
C=../..
D=../../
E=../bin
F=../../bin
G=../../bin/xml
H=../../bin/xml/
Need to replace an instance of .. or... (2 Replies)