1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've been successfully running a daily cron script to backup certain things on my server but just recently I started getting input/output errors for everything. For each directory the script tries to backup I now get this: cp: accessing `/mnt/backup/**dir**/': Input/output error (8 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys. Is it possible (I'm sure it is) to use the output of a simple 'ls' command as input of another command 'tail'. It is not really the output of the 'ls'. I have to useeach line of the output. This is the first command... ls *myFile*021308* Which it outputs many filenames. For each... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having an Input file .which is having a list of names. comapring with our database , needs to write the out put in file called output.txt , format should be name--> country--->phone number could you please help me.. thanks in advance (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I want to check a particular word is in standard error output or not. Can I acheive it in single command? For example, Delete file_name 2>error.log cat error.log Output: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Successfully deleted XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where delete is... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have a new hdd installed ,and sometimes if i start a session or ftp download while downloading sometimes it creates a ./filename.type Input/output errorso in that case i can-not overwrite ,rename ,remove ,or place a file with the same name on that dir. How to prevent this and is there... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have two files , one file with data file with attributes that need to be sent to another file to generate a predefined format. Example: File.txt AP|{SSHA}VEEg42CNCghUnGhCVg== APVG3|{SSHA}XK|"password" AP3|{SSHA}XK|"This is test" .... etc --------- test.sh has... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am facing issue while using scp. Source & target machines are Linux & HP-UX respectively. On target machine, if I fire the following command, I get error: Now if I try scp on another file, which is on the same source machine, it works fine. All directories and subdirectories... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, If I have loads of logs like below and I am interested to print the requests(lines) which have taken more than 1000 ms. In this case how could I print the two highlighted lines ? abc.log reqquest id232342 , adfghfasdfsaf, TIME=30 reqquest id11111 , asdfdfghdffsaf, TIME=54 reqquest... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I've got a directory of about 6000 txt files that look like this: a b c d e f g h k l m n I need to execute a command on them to combine them and, in the end, have one big file with all the needed columns taken form all the 6000 files. I've got the "combining" program, but my problem... (26 Replies)

10. Red Hat

Hi issue with red hat and san. I had a LUN shared to me from an oracle storage I am able to see it and the size. ~]# multipath -ll mpathe (3600144f0e984617b00005b466bd70014) dm-3 SUN,ZFS Storage 7430 size=10T features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1... (0 Replies)