I guess what's happening is that find is storing all the subdirectories it finds in order to do a recursive search. So, it finds foo/bar and then wants to search it, but first it does your -exec, and then when it goes to search under foo/bar, it's not there.
One way to avoid this is to tell find not to bother searching in foo/bar
Hi All,
i am writing a shell script in korn shell
which deletes all the files in a directory
once in every 10DAYS.
the directory has different format files.
the script has something like this;
cd /home/data/pavi
echo "Please Enter the Number of Days to search for"
read DAYS... (2 Replies)
can we use |(pipe operator) with find -exec.....?
or can pipe the output of find command to another command...?
if not, why...?
pls explain (3 Replies)
Hi,
i would like to rename files in directories and subdirs.
Files contains specific french or strange caracters.
I want to replace all non alpha-numerics by _ (underscore)
First, i made this, but i think the "for" is limited.
How can i do this directly by FIND ?
for file in $(find .... (0 Replies)
Hello All,
Is there a way to make exec do a couple of operations on a single input from find?
For example,
find . -type d -exec ls -l "{}" ";"
I would like to give the result of each "ls -l" in the above to a wc. Is that possible?
I want to ls -l | wc -l inside... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurues,
I need to modify an existing script that uses find to search a folder, and then move its contents to a folder. What I need to do is run gzip on each file after it's moved.
So, I ran this little test:
Put a ls.tar file on my $HOME, mkdir tmp, and then:
virtuo@tnpmprd01: find .... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am a linux newbe. I want to install a program. I can download it only with wget command from internet.
As far as i know this wget command does not transfer the exacutable flags.
Because of that i wanted to find all configure files and change their mod to 744.
I found this... (1 Reply)
This is a huge issue. and I need it fixed ASAP.
account-system gate-system race_traffic_sensor
achievement-system global race_voicepack
admin glue-system realdriveby
admin-system gps realism-system... (5 Replies)
Greetings,
Everytime I use rm with find I get errors like find: ./test: No such file or directory
For exemple :
hostname> mkdir test
hostname> ls
test
hostname> find . -type d -name test -exec rm -rf {} \;
find: ./test: No such file or directory
hostname>ls
hostname> echo $?
1
... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Please help me to sort out this problem, I am running this in centos o/s and whenever I run this script I am getting "find: missing argument to `-exec' " but when I run the same code in the command line I didn't find any problem. I am using perl script to run this ... (2 Replies)
Guys,
I want to find the log files greather than 23 days and i want to perform 2 things here.
one is to list the files and second is to gzip the files. hope this can be done using sh -c option. but not sure the exact command.
find . -name "*.log" -mtime +23 -exec ls -la {} \;
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: AraR87
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
crontab
crontab(5) File Formats Manual crontab(5)Name
crontab - clock daemon table file
Syntax
/usr/lib/crontab
Description
The command executes at specified dates and times according to the instructions in the file. The file consists of lines with six fields
each. The format for a line is as follows:
minute hour day month weekday command
The following list defines each field in the line:
minute (0-59) The exact minute that the command sequence executes.
hour (0-23) The hour of the day that the command sequence executes.
day (1-31) The day of the month that the command sequence executes.
month (1-12) The month of the year that the command sequence executes.
weekday (1-7) The day of the week that the command sequence executes. Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, and so forth.
command The complete command sequence variable that is to be executed. Note that the command string must conform to Bourne shell
syntax.
The first five integer fields may be specified as follows:
o A single number in the specified range
o Two numbers separated by a minus, meaning a range inclusive
o A list of numbers separated by commas, meaning any of the numbers
o An asterisk meaning all legal values
The sixth field is a string that is executed by the shell at the specified times. A percent sign (%) in this field is translated to a new-
line character. Only the first line of the command field, up to a percent sign (%) or end of line, is executed by the shell. The other
lines are made available to the command as standard input.
Examples
The following example is part of a file:
# periodic things
0,15,30,45 * * * * (echo '^M' `date`; echo '') >/dev/console
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/lib/atrun
# daily stuff
5 4 * * * sh /usr/adm/newsyslog
15 4 * * * ( cd /usr/preserve; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} ; )
20 4 * * * find /usr/msgs -mtime +21 -a ! -perm 444 -a ! -name bounds
-a -exec rm -f {} ;
# NOTE: The above line is wrapped.
# local cleanups
30 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name df-exec rm {} ;
35 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name tf-exec rm {} ;
40 4 * * * find /usr/spool/rwho -type f -mtime +21 -exec rm {} ;
#
# redirecting error output
0 17 * * 1,3,5 /bin/tar -cv /usr/sysads/smith > /dev/console 2>&1
#
FilesSee Alsosh(1), cron(8)
Guide to System Environment Setup
crontab(5)