1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I have did a search in the whole forum about Find, but get too many results, so I hope my message not annoying anyone. How do I do a find for a specific file in the whole machine? I am hoping for something like this. find . -name thanks (11 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey i am a bit stuck here. i just started work experience and i need to create a simple script which delete all files in a specify folder which are older then 2 days. :mad: i tried but it never works!!! anyone! i dont know much but unix since i mostly work on NT here but i dont wanna disapoint my... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am new to these forum and to scripting in general for that matter. i have been looking through the forums for something that could explain my problem. I have be come pretty familiar with sed and awk but I can not seem to figure this out... I am trying to match data from 3 files but every... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, i ahve to find a file "pattern*", from current directory to all its sub directories. i have tried with this find . -name "customer*" but here it displayed files with that name only from current directory, not from all its sub directories. i want a list of files with matched... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im trying to make a very simple find the first file with the .zip extension in a specific folder and open that file. The folder path and file name will vary every-time and it may contain spaces. If I try to look For this example the folder directory is /Users/username/Desktop/testfolder/abc... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to write a find and replace script with AWK and I can't seem to get it to work. I need it to find this exact string *P*: and replace the P with a T or just replcare the whole thing with *T*:. this is what I have tried awk 'BEGIN {gsub(/\*P*:/,"\*T*:"); print}' ${INFILE} >... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Nuts and bolts: I have a log file that should be updated once every minute called OD_MEM.log. I want to add a check to my CheckSystem script that confirms that the log has been written to in the last 2 minutes. If I use the find command with cmin 1, it finds the file every time. If I use the... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using the KSH, write a shell script called display_by_length, which takes an absolute pathname to a directory and displays all ordinary files in the directory ordered by their length; for each file listed, display the name of the file and its length - nothing else. Extend this script to take an... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a very simple script like below: for n in 10 20 30 do for a in 30 40 50 60 70 80 do for r in 2 3 4 5 6 7 do m=$((r*a)) count=1 while do echo "a = " $a ", m = " $m ", n = " $n ... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Bit of a tricky one for first post and hoping someone can help me out here. I've got some code that I'm trying to consolidate by taking the first line where it says "OUTPUT", remove the : and append it after a space where the are occurences of ".csv", and then take the next occurence of... (3 Replies)