1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I use a Windows-based program called <a href="http://www.coast.com">Coast Webmaster</a> for moving large numbers of HTML files in one directory to another directory. As you drag and drop each file or entire directory of files to new locations in the web root directory tree, this utility... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I currently generate a file every 15 minutes for 12 hours a day. I would like to clean the directory on a daily basis. I only want to keep the latest 3 versions for the last 4 days in the directory. Any suggestions? Thanks, Barbara (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all --- I have the need to manage multiple versions of a set of utility scripts -- both shell and SQL and other .dat files. I am wondering if anyone out there knows of a good way to "PATH" to SQL and text files in a way similar to how PATH facilitates finding executables in a pre-specified... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I just spent 30hours writing a script (my first) that makes extensive use of the find command on my mac os x terminal and which was meant to be run as a cron job on my server. The script is an automated backup system for a bunch of source control repositories. On the mac it works... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I need a script (either bash or perl) that can delete previous versions of files. For instance, from our continuous build process I get directories such as build5_dev_1.21 build5_dev_1.22 build5_dev_1.23 build5_dev_1.24 I need a script that I can run every night (using "at"... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have directory where new sub directories and files being created every few minutes. The directories are like abc_date, def_date, ghi_date. I am looking to keep the latest 2 unique directories and delete everything else. Here is what I have so far This gives me unique names excluding the... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I have three directory structures for code releases. Each directory structure looks like this: bash-3.00$ ls -R | more .: Test_Release_1 Test_Release_2 Test_Release_3 ./Test_Release_1/dbcode: rp_online_import_srdp.pkb-1 srdp_ar_validation.pkb-1... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

So, I have a machine running solaris (x86) and it has two different versions of Math::BigInt installed on it. The older version is 1.77. The newer version is 1.87 (via activeperl). When I run my code, one of the modules I use needs at least version 1.78. Somehow, it defaults to looking at the... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

In a nutshell, I want $USER to reflect my user ID in a script run with sudo. I'm working with OSX in case that makes a difference. If I 'sudo echo $USER', I get my user ID. But if I 'sudo myscript.sh' and myscript.sh has a line to echo $USER, I get 'root' I'm hoping there's a switch I can add... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to write a korn shell script to get the latest three versions for a file in the directory having lot of files with various versions (files with prefix as same but time stamp as suffix) and compress it and at the same time have to remove the remaining versions of the file (other than latest... (4 Replies)