And if I thought long enough, I would bet there would be a way to accomplish with a find command also. The beauty of unix - many ways to approach and solve problems.
Using a bash script, I need to find all files in a folder "except" the newest file. Then I need to insert the contents of one text file into all the files found. This text needs to be placed at the beginning of each file and needs a blank line between it and the current contents of the file. Then I... (5 Replies)
I have parsed a curl download with sed commands. I would also like to move the last line in the output file to the top. Can I use sed for this? (3 Replies)
Ok, this is really beyond my scripting skill level so I'm hoping somebody can help me out with this. I have a trace file in the following format:
<timestame> <devicenum> <sector address> <size in sectors> <0 or 1 (write or read)>
Here is what I need to do. I need to use the <sector address>,... (3 Replies)
I need help with a bash script.
We have a directory of files which need to be renamed and moved to another directory based on filename information in a cvs file.
The contents of the cvs file are as follows:
A102345,abc123
A102347,dfg475
Where dfg475 is the basename without extension
Our... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
So I have another question. I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy.
So something like this:
original: /path/to/file/test.txt
after: /path/to/test.txt
I had some great help recently with another... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I've learnt that the following command will remove the files from the given folder for given no.of days
find /home/etc -type f -atime -10 -exec rm -f {} \;
But how can I change the above command that will move the files to another specified directory instead of removing the... (1 Reply)
I have have 6 empty directory below. I would like write bash scipt if any files less "1000000000" bytes then move to "/export/home/mytmp/final" folder first and any files greater than "1000000000" bytes then move to final1, final2, final3, final4, final4, final5 and that depend see how many files,... (6 Replies)
Greetings. I know enough Unix to be dangerous (!) and know that there is a clever way to do the following and it will save me about a day of agony (this time) and I will use it forever after! (many days of agony saved in the future)!
Basically
I need to find any image files (JPGs, PSDs etc)... (5 Replies)
I have the below command to delete all .xml files older than 90 days
find . -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
What will be the command to move all the .xml files older than 90 days to this folder -> "/tmp/my_bk"
My OS: SunOS my-pc 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc... (4 Replies)
I have a directory /home/cmccabe/nfs/exportedReports that contains multiple folders in it. The find writes the name of each folder to out.txt. A new directory is then created in a new location /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API, named with the date. What I am trying to do, unsuccessfully at the moment,... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
mv
mv(1) General Commands Manual mv(1)Name
mv - move or rename files
Syntax
mv [-i] [-f] [-] file1 file2
mv [-i] [-f] [-] file... directory
Description
The command moves (changes the name of) file1 to file2.
If file2 already exists, it is removed before file1 is moved. If file2 has a mode which forbids writing, prints the mode and reads the
standard input to obtain a line. If the line begins with y, the move takes place. If it does not, exits. For further information, see
In the second form, one or more files (plain files or directories) are moved to the directory with their original file-names.
The command refuses to move a file onto itself.
Options
- Interprets all following arguments as file names to allow file names starting with a minus.
-f Force. This option overrides any mode restrictions or the -i switch.
-i Interactive mode. If a move is to supersede an existing file, the system prompts youw with the name of the file fol-
lowed by a question mark. If you type a string that begins with y, the move occurs. If you type any other response,
the move does not occur.
Restrictions
If file1 and file2 lie on different file systems, must copy the file and delete the original. In this case the owner name becomes that of
the copying process and any linking relationship with other files is lost.
See Alsocp(1), ln(1)mv(1)