1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have a several files with .tar or .gz in a known location. i have files with one of the several files of .tar or .gz text.txt help.pl move.txt how do i write a script to find out those particular files .tar or .gz where that contains the above mentioned files (i.e,... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files. a) /usr/users/oracle/bin b) /usr/users/oracle... (1 Reply)

3. Solaris

Hello, I need help in finding files older than x days and creating a single consolidated tar file combining them. Can anyone please provide me a script? Thanks, Dawn (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, 4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'. ./ora_475244.aud ./ora_671958.aud ./ora_934052.aud ./ora_934050.aud However, when I issued the below command: tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all.. This should be simple but stoopid here can't get head around it! I have many directories, say 100 each with many files inside. I need a script to traverse through the dirs, find most recent file in each dir and add it to a tar file. I can find the files with something like for... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm tring to: find files recursively older than x days that contain dat or DAT then tar them I can find the files older than 90 days containing dat with this: find . -mtime +90 -type f -name "*dat*" -exec tar -cvvfp /some/path/some.tar {} \; but how do I do it case insensitive? ... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, I'm new to shell scripting... I've a situation like to find *.tar files under all subdirectories in "/home/abcd" and i used the below, find /opt/lhapp ! -name "temp" | more the above works fine.. Now don't need search few direcotries like "/home/abcd/aaaa",... (15 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have used the below steps and found some discrepancies step 1 : find ./ -type f -mtime +7 -name "*.00*" | wc -l = 13519 ( total files ) ( the size of this files is appx : 10GB ) step 2: find ./ -type f -mtime +7 -name "*.00*" | xargs tar zcvf Archieve_7.tar.gz step... (7 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I finally installed Chakra Linux and noticed whether I create or extract a file with 700, 755, 775 permissions a * sign is listed at the end of the filename: $ ls -l bin/32 total 16440 -rwxr-xr-x 1 501 utmp 6321496 09.12.2013 04:02 bitcoind* -rwxr-xr-x 1 501 utmp 10508613 09.12.2013 04:02... (10 Replies)