Could you do the trimming in the shell itself, i.e.
Code:
"${VARIABLE:0:64}"
for the first 64 letters, instead of letting the command choose the eventual name? That way you'd know exactly what it is. You may need to use basename also, to get the filename itself without potentially stripping off directories...
Hi,
I have a folder which contain the log files. The folder may contain sub folders as well. I want to move the contents of the log folder to tmp folder periodically. I have used the command.
LOG_DIR=/logs
DESTINATION_DIR=/tmp/logs
find ${LOG_DIR} -mtime +1 -exec mv {}... (10 Replies)
Hi ,
I need a shell script which basicaly moves all the files from one folder say folder x to folder y and once they are moved to folder y a datetimestamp should be attached to there name
for ex
file a should be moved to y folder and renamed as a_20081015 (1 Reply)
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)
Hi Experts,
I have a "Source" folder which may contain some files. I need a shell script which should move all files which are older than 3 days to "Archive" folder.
Thanks in Advance... (4 Replies)
hello there- first post here- maybe someone can help-
Basically I am trying to copy the contents of a folder to a different folder that has a variable name.
the content I want to copy would be in a folder on my desktop called: myfolder
the variable folder would look something like: ... (3 Replies)
Hi
I'm trying to look through a series of directories in A folder, lets just call it A:
for example:
A/1
A/2
A/3
Etc and I wish to move the files in the folder if they are bigger than a certain size into a structure like below:
A/TooBig/1
A/TooSmall/1
A/TooBig/2
A/TooSmall/2... (1 Reply)
There are files stored like 14.Aug.2014.log, 15.Aug.2014.log etc. in a folder $HOME/logyou need to find out all the log files of last 1 month and move them into $HOME/logs/lastmonth/
this should be implemented with reference of file name.
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There are files stored like 14.Aug.2014.log, 15.Aug.2014.log etc. in a folder $HOME/log you need to find out all... (4 Replies)
I need help to write shell script to copy files from one server to another server.
Source Directory UAE(inside i have another folder Misc with files inside UAE folder).I have to copy this to another server UAE folder( Files should be copied to UAE folder and Misc files should be copied in target... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
basename
basename(1) General Commands Manual basename(1)Name
basename - strip directory names from pathname
Syntax
basename string [ suffix ]
Description
The command deletes from string any prefix up to and including the last slash (/) and the suffix (if specified), and prints the result on
the standard output. The command handles limited regular expressions in the same manner as metacharacters must be escaped if they are
intended to be interpreted literally. For example:
% basename /vmunix .x
vmun
% basename /vmunix '.x'
vmunix
In the first example, returns because it interprets the as a regular expression consisting of any character followed by the letter In the
second example, the dot is escaped; there is no match on a dot followed by and returns
The command is often used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures.
Examples
The following example shell script compiles the file and moves the output to in the current directory:
cc /usr/src/bin/cat.c
mv a.out `basename $1 .c`
The following example echoes only the base name of the file by removing the prefix and any possible sequence of characters following the
period in the file's name:
% basename /etc/syslog.conf '..*'
syslog
See Alsodirname(1), ex(1), sh(1)basename(1)