1. Shell Programming and Scripting

can anyone tell me how i can see if a directory contains no files thus is empty i use bash (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi all: my solaris FIND does not support find myFolder -type d -empty how can i find the empty folders? thanks! (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey, MAILTO=cron@domain.ca */20 * * * * /usr/bin/wget http://list.domain.ca/admin/consume.php >/dev/nullthats what the crontab is setup todo, so basically every 20minutes it runs consume.php In my root directory, i'm getting files like this: consume.php consume.php1 consume.php2 i woke... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am checking for a empty input file to do some further action , but I am getting exit status 0 in both the cases , for empty and non empty file both. The value of $? is coming 0 in if part also and else part too. #!/bin/ksh if ]; then echo "data" # exit 0 echo "$?" else... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, How can I empty the files of *.txt.... in one command. (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

how can i use while loop ? while file is empty do.... if not empty do ..... in bash (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a piece of perl code in which I DON'T want to delete a file rather empty out the contents, here is the code - if ( unlink("$opt_b") == 1 ) { print_log( "$opt_b deleted", 1 ); }else { print_log( "Could not delete $opt_b:$!", 1 ); ... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need help if I list all the file that determined by user input and if program cannot find file it will display " there no file that you looking for " here is my code but it not working #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Enter Advance Search Function: "; chomp ($func = <STDIN>); my @func1 =... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, I'm just starting out with shell scripting and I'm trying to make a test where the script will basically run yum check-update to find out if the server has any available and if it does it e-mails me but if not it will just stop there. I have it working if there are actually... (7 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Please help me. How i can find empty directories in solaris?? (4 Replies)