Howdy folks.
I have a problem - I'm sure the answer is very simple, but I can't work it out.
I want to create a UNIX shell script that does what I've been doing in DOS batch files for years - that is, backing up files. By which I mean copying files from a source directory to a target... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a coupel of files in /tmp which I have to copy to /var. But I want their name to be same as the source with date suffix.
But the problem is I don;t know the prefix of the file, I only know the suffix of file.
AAA.997
ABC.997
ADC.997
The later part 997 is constant but the... (1 Reply)
Hi
I am a shell-script newbie and am looking to synchronize certain files in two directory structures.
Both these directory-trees are in CVS and so I dont want the CVS directory to be copied over.
I want only .sh and .pl files in each subdirectory under these directory trees to be... (3 Replies)
I hope this isn't as silly as it sounds from the title of the thread.
I have software that outputs files where the name starts with a real number followed by underscore as a prefix to an input file name. These will list in the directory with the file with the smallest real number prefix as the... (5 Replies)
Hi all:
Here's my dilemma: to identify files of a specific type, copy them to a new location while preserving the original file attributes (date, time, full path, etc), and at the same time capture the count of the number of files identified as a variable for later reporting.
Here's where I... (9 Replies)
Hi
I need to copy a huge directory with thousands of files onto another directory but without *.WMV files (and without *.wmv - perhaps we need to use *.).
Pls advise how can I do that.
Thanks (17 Replies)
Is it possible to only copy selected files+its directories when you are copying recursively?
find /OriginalFolder/* -type -d \{ -mtime 1 -o -mtime 2 \ } -exec cp -R {} /CopyTo/'hostname'__CopyTo/ \; -print
From the above line, I want to only copy *txt and *ini files from /OriginalFolder/*
... (4 Replies)
I only want the file copied if it is newer. But it still copies the file?
zip -u Ubuntu_Documents.zip ./*
cp -u Ubuntu_Documents.zip $DOCS_Backup/Ubuntu_Documents_`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M"`.zip (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: drew77
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
rdate
rdate(1M) System Administration Commands rdate(1M)NAME
rdate - set system date from a remote host
SYNOPSIS
rdate hostname
DESCRIPTION
rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local
system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.
The inetd daemon responds to rdate requests. To enable inetd response, the lines invoking the time command in inetd.conf must not be com-
mented out.
USAGE
The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrcmdc |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)SunOS 5.10 15 Feb 2001 rdate(1M)