Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and would really appreciate if someone could help me with this question.
I have a directory structure as follows..
main directory is DATA under which i have different directories names fileserver01, fileserver02 ... till fileserver 15.
under each... (8 Replies)
Hi all
Is it possible to copy a structure of a directory only.
e.g.
I have a file with the following entries that is a result of a find :-
/dir1/dir2/file.dbf
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file1.dbf
/dir1/file.dbf
I want to copy these to a directory and keep the structure however starting at a new dir... (8 Replies)
i have a text file as.
/database/sp/NTR_Update_Imsi_List.sql
/database/sp/NTR_Update_Imsi_Range_List.sql
/database/sp/NTR_Vlr_Upload.sql
/database/tables/StatsTables.sql
/mib/ntr.mib
/mib/ntr.v2.mib
/scripts/operations/ntr/IMSITracer.ph
/scripts/operations/ntr/IMSITracer.pl ... (3 Replies)
I need to transfer software off a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 server. I can not seem to read this server's tape on my other server since the tape drive (IBM Gen 5 DAT 72GB) will continuosly "eject" this DAT 8 tape. I have been able to 'tarball' most of the smaller directories with success and... (11 Replies)
Hi I need to write a shell script which basically searches for all the empty files within the directory structure, lists them before asking the user to confirm if they would like to delete them. If the user deletes the file then a notice would appear confirming the file is deleted.
I've be... (5 Replies)
Hello
I have three directory structures for code releases.
Each directory structure looks like this:
bash-3.00$ ls -R | more
.:
Test_Release_1
Test_Release_2
Test_Release_3
./Test_Release_1/dbcode:
rp_online_import_srdp.pkb-1
srdp_ar_validation.pkb-1... (1 Reply)
How do I write a bash or ruby or perl or groovy script to print all the files in my directory tree that are one-to-two years old, the size of each file, and the sum of file sizes and then delete them?
I was using
find . -atime +365 -exec rm '{}' \;
but the problem was that I could not... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 Replies)
Hello Team,
We would like to backup a lot of files inside of a structure of directories, four, five or more levels in some Ubuntu, Mac and Solaris systems.
For instance:
/home/chuck/sales/virgin/rent-quote.pdf
/home/chuck/sales/marriott/vacation-quote.pdf... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: csierra
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xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)