1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have tried both the options in small dummy scripts, but somehow i can't differentiate between the two. find . -name H* -exec ls -l {} \; find . -name H* | xargs ls -l Both work the ditto way. Any help is appreciated. (19 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

What I'm trying to do is perform a copy, well a ditto actually, on the results of a find command, but some inline string substitution needs to happen. So if I run this code find ./ -name "*.tif" I get back these results. .//1234567.tif .//abcdefg.tif Now the action from exec or xargs I... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I believe what is happening is rm is executing in the script on every directory and on failure of the first it stops although returns status 0. find $HOME -name /directory/filename | xargs -l rm This is the code I use but file remains. I am using sun solaris system which has way limited... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have many files like below in my currect dir test1.me test2.me test3.me I wanted them to rename without .me extention I tried below find . -name "*.me" | xargs -i mv {} `echo {} | sed 's/\.me//'` It thorws error that cant mv ./test1.me to ./test1.me as they are... (6 Replies)

5. Programming

I have read several docs on these on the web and looked at examples. I can't figure out the difference. In some cases you use one or the other or you combine them. can someone help me understand this? (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, i'm trying to create a tar of all the .txt files i find in my dir . I've used xargs to acheive this but i wanted to do this with exec and looks like it only archives the last file it finds . can some one advice what's wrong here : find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0... (9 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, What is the difference between the following commands find . -type f -exec grep 'abc' {} \; and find . -type f | xargs grep 'abc' Appreciate your help. (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Experts, I need to copy files from one location to another using xargs. Tried something like this (In Ubuntu & Solaris ). mkdir -p 1234; find /home/emd/Desktop/n007/M007/ -type f -name "A2014*" | xargs -0 cp -r {} /home/emd/Desktop/1234 But every time i run this, a weird error... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to move all the file listed by below command to /tmp/testing directory find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +3 I tried using -exec and xargs - none of the combination is working? Please, help (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a script issue I can't seem to work out. In a directory I have several folders and I want to send just the sapdata1 to sapdata14 folders and their contents but not sapdataXX/.snapshot the script is: #!/bin/bash # SETUP OPTIONS export SRCDIR="/scratch/doug/test/sapdata*"... (5 Replies)