Put this in the for statement replacing the 'mv' statement.
If blank lines were removed from $files, then newfiles should have a smaller line count, since blank lines still count as lines. Then your time stamp changes only if blanks were removed. If the file was copies over in full, then newfile wont be less than $files and the 'mv' wont happen.
hi, i am on aix. i used smitty to remove a user..
but then found that its directory still exists....
so i have to remove the directory manually...
am i doing it the right way? (2 Replies)
Hello, somehow a directory called -r was created on one of my servers and I can't remove is using either rm or rmdir. Is there a way to remove this directory? Thank you.
-David (2 Replies)
What is the best way to completely remove dir with it's content ???
rmdir deletes only EMPTY dirs as i know.
The man page of remove function says "remove() deletes a name from the file system." Can it remove any dir recursively ??? :rolleyes: (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.
Here is an example of my directory.
/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to remove a directory recursively except the inside directories calles .SYNC (designsync dirs) I am looking for something like:
\rm -rf < find . * | grep -v .SYNC
The find works ok but I do not know how to redirect it.
Please help.
Regards,
Ziv:rolleyes: (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to remove a directory recursively except the inside directories calles .SYNC (designsync dirs) I am looking for something like:
\rm -rf < find . * | grep -v .SYNC
The find works ok but I do not know how to redirect it.
Please help.
Regards,
Ziv (3 Replies)
By Mistake i created a directory named "-lrt" in one of my working directories and now i am not able to delete it , please suggest hw to delete this directory now ?
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hello my friends,
I have a directory called
log_old
when I try to delete it, it tells me no such file or directory.
Then I tried to run this command:
ls -lb
It tells me the directory name, it is: log_old1\177
!!
I tried to remove it using inode, using this... (4 Replies)
How to remove directory of a particular user (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pspriyanka
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bcron-update
bcron-update(8) System Manager's Manual bcron-update(8)NAME
bcron-update - Update system crontabs.
SYNOPSIS
bcron-update path [ path ... ]
DESCRIPTION
bcron-update polls the named files or directories periodically to see if there are any new, changed, or removed files. When it detects
changes, it mirrors those changes into the crontab spool directory. bcron-update runs as root in order to be able to read system files
that would potentially be unreadable otherwise.
On Debian, if path is a directory, bcron-update skips files in this directory with names that do not solely consist of lower- and uppercase
letters ('a'-'z', 'A'-'Z'), digits ('0'-'9'), underscores ('_'), and hyphens ('-').
EXAMPLES
To mirror modern vixie-cron's behavior, use:
bcron-update /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d
ENVIRONMENT
BCRON_SPOOL
The spool directory for bcron. Defaults to /var/spool/cron.
BCRON_USER
After writing files and before moving them into their final location, bcron-update changes the ownership of the file to this user so
that bcron-sched can read them.
SEE ALSO bcron-sched(8)DIAGNOSTICS
bcron-update outputs three different kinds of messages about actions it is taking.
Rescanning /etc/cron.d
The named directory has been modified, and will be scanned to determine what files have been added or deleted.
-/etc/cron.d/oldfile
The named file no longer exists and will be removed from the spool.
+/etc/cron.d/newfile
The named file was either created or modified since the last scan, and will be copied into the spool.
AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>
bcron-update(8)