Could you do the trimming in the shell itself, i.e.
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 SUNOS
basename
basename(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands basename(1B)NAME
basename - display portions of pathnames
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/basename string [suffix]
DESCRIPTION
The basename utility deletes any prefix ending in `/' and the suffix, if present in string. It directs the result to the standard output,
and is normally used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures. The suffix is a string with no special significance attached
to any of the characters it contains.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the basename command.
This shell procedure invoked with the argument /usr/src/bin/cat.c compiles the named file and moves the output to cat in the current direc-
tory:
example% cc $1
example% mv a.out `basename $1 .c`
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 28 Mar 1995 basename(1B)