Hi:-
I need help with a script I need to modify: - what's the best/easiest way to find out the oldest file in a directory and then move this file to another directory?
Thanks, (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie to scripting and I need your help regarding finding the oldest file in a particular directory. My intention is to remove that oldest file.
Are there any options available with the "find" command to do this..
Thanks in advance for your help
Pavan (4 Replies)
I am trying to determine the oldest and most recent files in a huge directory. I am using an ls -tr statement outside my find statement. The directory is too big and I am getting an "arg list too long" error. Is there something I can put in my find statement that doesn't create a list to... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Please help with the following questions
1) how can i find size of a file ? i have written du -k $flname > s1 . Is this right ?
Any other better suggeastions ?
2) how do I use mv command for moving the file ? I need the syntax with some examples
3) Command for printing the total... (1 Reply)
I'm still up trying to figure this out and it is driving me nuts.
I have a log file which has a basic format of this...
2010-10-10 22:25:42
Init block 'UA Deployment Date': Dynamic refresh of repository scope variables has failed.
The ODBC function has returned an error. The database... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have lots of sequentially numbered files which make up an image sequence.
I'm trying to do two things with it:
#1: Find gaps in the sequence and move each range of sequencial files into their own subfolder.
#2: Designate a starting point (file) and move every 24th file into... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have some files in directory and the names of files are like
jnhld_15233_2010-11-23
jnhld_15233_2007-10-01
jnhld_15233_2001-05-04
jnhld_15233_2011-11-11
jnhld_15233_2005-06-07
jnhld_15233_2000-04-01
..etc
How can i sort these files based on the date in the file name so that ... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have two types of file names
filename1_12345 or filename1-12345 at the same time I have second type
filename2-12345 in a txt file.
I am trying to write awk script that will sort these names with below pattern
ALL file names like
filename1_12345 and filename1-12345 will go to... (1 Reply)
Hi
I am want to create a script where the file gets moved from the current folder to a folder transfer based on the oldest first. This script should run one file at a time using a loop. I want it as a loop because I want to do some processing while I have one file. Can anyone guide me on this? (2 Replies)
I have a dilemma, we have users who are copying files to "directory 1." These images have file names which include the year it was taken. I need to put together a script to do the following:
Examine the file naming convention, ensuring it's the proper format (e.g. test-1983_filename-123.tif)... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
drs_tool
drslib() drslib()
NAME
drs_tool - Command-line interface to DRSLIB
SYNPOSIS DESCRIPTION USAGE
Usage
Usage: drs_tool [command] [options] [drs-pattern]
command: list list publication-level datasets todo show file operations pending for the next version upgrade make changes to
the selected datasets to upgrade to the next version mapfile make a mapfile of the selected dataset history list all versions of the
selected dataset init initialise CMIP5 product detection data
OPTIONS --help display this help message and exit
--version
output version information and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-R ROOT, --root=ROOT
Root directory of the DRS tree
-I INCOMING, --incoming=INCOMING
Incoming directory for DRS files. Defaults to <root>/output
-a ACTIVITY, --activity=ACTIVITY
Set DRS attribute activity for dataset discovery
-p PRODUCT, --product=PRODUCT
Set DRS attribute product for dataset discovery
-i INSTITUTE, --institute=INSTITUTE
Set DRS attribute institute for dataset discovery
-m MODEL, --model=MODEL
Set DRS attribute model for dataset discovery
-e EXPERIMENT, --experiment=EXPERIMENT
Set DRS attribute experiment for dataset discovery
-f FREQUENCY, --frequency=FREQUENCY
Set DRS attribute frequency for dataset discovery
-r REALM, --realm=REALM
Set DRS attribute realm for dataset discovery
-v VERSION, --version=VERSION
Force version upgrades to this version
-P FILE, --profile=FILE
Profile the script exectuion into FILE
--detect-product
Automatically detect the DRS product of incoming data
REQUIRES FILES
drs_tool uses metaconfig to configure and store configuration information. Its configuration may be found then in a metaconfig.conf file,
in /etc/metaconfig/metaconfig.conf on Debian systems, which may be overriden by $HOME/.metaconfig.conf or ./metaconfig.conf
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The variable METACONF_CONF
VERSION
0.3.0a3
BUGS
To query and report bugs in drs_tool, please use reportbug on Debian systems.
SEE ALSO
http://esgf.org/esgf-drslib-site/index.html
AUTHOR
DRSLIB was written by Stephen Pascoe, STFC.SC.UK. This manual page was written by Alastair McKinstry.
drslib()