1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to copy some files from one location to another and I need to write a script to move all the files and the subdirectories to the new location (both unix), but excluding the temp directory. i.e., I want to avoid copying my temp subdirectories during the process of copying other files... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to copy php.ini to all subdirectory. what command that should i run? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi if anyone could help me :) I did a lot of search and 70% of answer is "how to count files in all subdirectories". A basic problem for me is how to count files in every subdirectory separately then sort it by number of files For example: dir1 file1 file2 subdir11 dir2 dir3 ... (3 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hi All, I am using the foolowing find /home/vcrd/put -name '*.z' -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \; in a shell script, it is deleting all file having *.z in /home/vcrd/put/appl sub directory. I donot want the files in the subdirectory are deleted. Regards Megh (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to write a shell script to search for a pattern in the directory and show only one entry for each field, essentially I am looking to search for a pattern in a file and list that file name. (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm trying to organize my MB Pro by moving all my jpeg files to a single folder from the desktop. There are some on the desktop that are not in any folder. I was at the command line and typed mv *.jpg "Jpeg files" but it only moved the files that were on the desktop, not any of the ones that... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Forgive me if there is an answer to this somewhere in the forums. I've gone through as much as I could but couldn't find a relevant answer. What I'm trying to do is use the ll command to list some files in a subdirectory that matches a certain format. I've tried ll *.*a* <subdirectory> but... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to find all DAT files in a subdirectory named IN. I do not know the entire path. For example: /stage/<?>/<?>/IN/file.DAT I am using the find command without success: find /stage -name IN -a -name '*.DAT' -print What is the correct logic and syntax? Thank you for the help. (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm very new to scripting languages and I'm to use shell script to write a utility to backup files with a specific extension into a subdirectory. Here is what I have done. #!/bin/bash read -p "Enter file(s) extension: " FILE if ; then mkdir `whoami`.$FILE #To... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to Copy non-empty files into subdirectory I have directory A there are bunch of files: a.txt a.txt.target b.txt b.target.txt....... How can i find out the non-empty file within *.txt.target and copy them into a subdirectory B? Thank you. (2 Replies)