1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Can someone guide me how to extract bulk emails into a single flat file ? We receive mails (approx 1K daily ). I want the contents of the emails for 'current date' to be dumped into one single text file. Please help. (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can you please tell me how to find a file in a directory and then if it exists i need to place it in a different folder? I have to use "ls -lt" command I mean this command is something existing one . can you please tell me how i set the directory path. Like dir1/dir2/filename.csv to... (8 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

My process creates file like abc.20090427.txt i.e abc.date.txt next time when my process it has to detect if any previous "abc" exist. If exist then move to archive and create a new abc file. I am using test command but it doesnt allow wild card. if ] then mv abc.*.txt... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way to move the files ALONE from one dir to another dir? In my source dir,I have files as well as directories.I want to move the files alone to another dir and the directories should remain undisturbed. If I use mv * < target dir> ,then the directories also moved. Any... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to move 1000s of files from one folder to another. Actually there are 100K+ files. Source dir : source1 Target dir : target1 Now if try cp or mv commands I am getting an error message : Argument List too long. I tried to do it by the time the files are created in the source... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I'm facing this below error when I move files using find command....Please help out...... $ find /home/aa/ab -mtime +90 -type f -exec mv -f {} /home/aa/ab/ac \; mv: 0653-405 /home/aa/ab/ac/MP_060520111245.csv and /home/aa/ab/ac/MP_060520111245.csv are identical. mv: 0653-405... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a large html file that has emails like something@domain.com and somethingdomain.com how can i print the emails? its fine if duplicates show up and it doesnt need to save into a file or anything, just whatever is the easiest way to make some basic code for this thanks! :) (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I'm facinf issue while moving large files using find command.I've a scenario like i've to move one day older files from one directory to anothe directory.I'm using the below command. find $src_dir -name error -prune -o -type f -mtime +1 -exec mv {} $dest_dir \; some times... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file in which each line is the name of another file. Is there a way to serve them to the command line? For example, if the file contains file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt ... file9.txt is there a way to insert them in the command as a batch? If I ran a command like grep... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

mail works for my personal email address mailx -s "Alert" mymail@mycomp.com<results.txt mail fails for the Teams Distribution List (copied from outlook) mailx -s "Alert" #My-Team@mycomp.com<results.txt This was the first problem. The second problem is if I have the subject line... (4 Replies)