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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users unix command pipe Post 302274457 by RubinPat on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 03:43:37 PM
Old 01-07-2009
unix command pipe
I am pretty new to UNIX. My client has a requirement where in a directory we have some files with somewhat similar name
like test_XX.txt, test_XY.txt, test_XZ.txt, test_ZZ.txt, test_ZY.txt, test_ZX.txt, test_YY.txt......Out of these files
few files have 0 bytes. Is there a way where we can go ahead and remove those files which start with "test"[as that is the only common string in the file name] and have 0 bytes size. I tried the following commands:
find . -type f -size 0 | xargs rm [It removed all the files irrespective of name with 0 byte size]
Is there a solution for this?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

parallel-slurp

PARALLEL-SLURP(1)														 PARALLEL-SLURP(1)

NAME

       parallel-slurp - copy files from listed hosts

SYNOPSIS

       parallel-slurp [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt -L destdir remote local

DESCRIPTION

       pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It's most useful for operating on clusters of
       homogenously-configured hosts.

       parallel-slurp gathers specified files from hosts you listed.

OPTIONS

       -r --recursive
	   recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)

       -L --localdir
	   output directory for remote file copies

       -h --hosts
	   hosts file (each line "host[:port] [user]")

       -l --user
	   username (OPTIONAL)

       -p --par
	   max number of parallel threads (OPTIONAL)

       -o --outdir
	   output directory for stdout files (OPTIONAL)

       -e --errdir
	   output directory for stderr files (OPTIONAL)

       -t --timeout
	   timeout (secs) (-1 = no timeout) per host (OPTIONAL)

       -O --options
	   SSH options (OPTIONAL)

       -v --verbose
	   turn on warning and diagnostic messages (OPTIONAL)

EXAMPLE

       An example to copy /home/irb2/foo.txt from each host. Files gathered will be stored in /tmp/outdir/hostname/foo.txt.

	   # prallel-slurp -h hosts.txt -L /tmp/outdir -l irb2 
		    /home/irb2/foo.txt foo.txt

ENVIRONMENT

       All four programs take similar sets of options. All of these options can be set using the following environment variables:

       o   PSSH_HOSTS
       o   PSSH_USER
       o   PSSH_PAR
       o   PSSH_OUTDIR
       o   PSSH_VERBOSE
       o   PSSH_OPTIONS

SEE ALSO

       parallel-ssh(1), parallel-scp(1), parallel-nuke(1), parallel-rsync(1), ssh(1)

AUTHOR

       Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>

COPYING

       Copyright: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Brent N. Chun

NOTES

	1. bnc@theether.org
	   mailto:bnc@theether.org

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