I was hoping to get some assistance with this C program I am working on. The goal is to find the largest file in the current directory and then display this filename along with the filesize. What I have so far will display all the files in the current directory. But, how do I deal with "grabbing"... (1 Reply)
In my server migration requirement, I need to compare if one file on old server is exactly the same as the corresponding file on the new server.
For diff and comm, the inputs need to be sorted. But I do not want to disturb the content of the file and need to find byte-to-byte match.
Please... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a very urgent requirement here. I have to find all files in the specified directory but not in the sub directories(The directory name is stored in a variable) which are older than the current date as well as current time and rename it as filename_yyyymmddhhmmss.ext and move it into a... (7 Replies)
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I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Using the instruction mget (within ftp) and with "Interactive mode off", I want to get all files from directory (DirAA), but not the files in sub-directories.
The files names don't follow any defined rule, so they can be just letters without (.) period
Directory structure example: ... (0 Replies)
I am trying to use a loop to strip of the funny character ^M at the end of all lines in each file found in current directory and I have used the following in a script:
find . -type f -name '*.txt' | while read file
do
echo "stripping ^M from ..."
ex - "$file" > $tempfile
%s/^M//g
wq!
# mv... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I am having a hard type in figuring out how to only gather certain files in the current directory without exploring its subdirectories.
I tried:
find . -name "*.ksh" -prune
this also returns ksh files from lower subdirectories.
I also tried
find . -ls -name "*.ksh"
This also... (8 Replies)
we were asked to make a program that deletes all zero-byte files in a psecified directory. we need to use sysytem_calls like: scandir(),chdir(),stat() and remove(). (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to find 4 latest files inside one folder having following File Name pattern and store them into 4 different variables and then use for processing in my shell script. File name is fixed length.
1) Each file starts with = ABCJmdmfbsjop letters + 7 Digit Number... (6 Replies)
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)