1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, I am wondering if you can assist with my question and ask kindly for this. I have a number of files that are listed as file1.gz through file100.gz. I am trying to perform a grep on the files and find a specific date that only resides within within one of the files. There are... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Started using unix commands recently. I have 50 gzip files. I want to grep each of these files for a line count based particular category in column 3. How can I do that? For example Sr.No Date City Description Code Address 1 06/09 NY living here 0909 10st st nyc 2 ... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi - can someone please help me combine find, grep and possibly ls into something workable: i.e. How can I list all the files that contain the word "pet" in all directories under the current directory that are called "animal", bar those anywhere under directories called "archive"? I suspect... (6 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, what i'm trying to configure its to the following, find all files older then 1 min,gzip them ,rename/move with date and extension .gz (example tes.log_2012-07-26.gz) and trying to move them to another folder (gzipped),the command i'm typing its this, find /home/charli/Desktop/test/ -type... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having an issue adding the -size test to my find command. I am trying to find all files smaller than 250mb, that are not in .snapsnot or man directories. What i started with find . -xdev -type d \( -name man -o -name .snapshot \) -prune -o -type f What I have tried..unsuccessfully... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello I am trying to select multiple files older than 14 days and create a single compressed file out of it. (AIX Release 3 Version 5) I am trying to achieve it by following tar -cvf db01_log.tar `find . -name "db01*.log" -mtime +14" -print`| gzip > db01_log.tar however it just... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to write a housekeeping that finds all .trc files older than x days in a given FS, checks if they are used and gzips them if they are not used by any process. I need to do it without calling any additional .sh script. I managed to make it work for Linux only: find .... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello! I have a question about how to combine patterns in grep commands with the OR operator. So I have this little assignment here: Provide a regular expression that matches email addresses for San Jose City College faculty. A San Jose City college faculty’s email address takes the form:... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I need to combined in 1 line the execution below : find * -type f -mtime -$nb_days -print | xargs tar -cvf $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar gzip $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar.gz The fact that the TAR is very big, at the end I need to generate only the GZ file. The option z on the tar... (2 Replies)

10. HP-UX

Hello, I will like to execute a find, tar & gzip in one command. find * -type f -mtime -$nb_days -print | xargs tar -cvf $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar gzip $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar.gz The fact that the TAR is very big, at the end I need to generate only a compress file. Please note... (22 Replies)