But i was thinking in doing it with for loop so that i could have better chance to check if any of files in these directories misses out the touch command.
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What do you expect a failure of the touch command to tell you?
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With touch i just wanted to the file to reflect the current sysdate and time.
i was thinking something like this
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Don't you mean:
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Why touch everything on every iteration of the loop?
If you do that, you will have no idea which file failed to be touched.
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Syntax error. That should be:
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That will try to execute the contents of $1 as a shell command. You mean:
I'm trying to write a script that will loop through all files and directories down from a path I give it, and change the permissions and ACL. I was able to do the obvious way and change the files and folders on the same level as teh path...but I need it to continue on deeper into the file... (2 Replies)
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Hi,
I have various log files in different paths. e.g.
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a/b/c/d/f/server.log
a/b/c/d/g/server.log
a/b/c/h/e/server.log
a/b/c/h/f/server.log
a/b/c/h/g/server.log
a/b/c/i/e/server.log
a/b/c/i/e/server.log
a/b/c/i/e/server.log
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Hello,
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Hello
I have user directories that contain /temp directory.
Example folders:
/user1/temp/
/user2/temp/
/user3/temp/
How can i loop over all user directories and find all files only in their /temp folder?
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so
mydemo--2015-03-23-1500.tar.gz
> database
-... (5 Replies)
Hello,
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Bear with me...
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