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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help understanding script command Post 302275946 by KGee on Monday 12th of January 2009 03:44:32 PM
Old 01-12-2009
Need help understanding script command
We use a UNIX-based system (Lawson) at work and I was given this command to request a data extract from the db admin. The only thing I really understand is the last line as it appears to be joining the files created from the first three lines into one. Is there anyone who can help me breakdown the rest of the code. I assume "find" means exactly what it states and I think "grep" is extracting whatever is found. But what about the rest of the syntax in red, green and blue. And what does "/tmp" mean?

Code:
find /opt/app/lawprod/ \* -exec ls -l {} \; |grep Oct | grep -v " 200" > /tmp/oct
find /opt/app/lawprod/ \* -exec ls -l {} \; |grep Nov | grep -v " 200" > /tmp/nov
find /opt/app/lawprod/ \* -exec ls -l {} \; |grep Dec | grep -v " 200" > /tmp/dec
cat /tmp/oct /tmp/nov /tmp/dec > /tmp/oct-dec

Thank you.
Kevin
 

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NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
   Synopsis
       set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]

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