1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to find a specific pattern from approximately 400000 files on solaris platform. Its very heavy for me to grep that pattern to each file individually. Can anybody suggest me some way to search for specific pattern (alpha numeric) from these forty thousand files. Please note that... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im transmiting thousands ftp files to a server, when type the command mput *, an error comes and say. args list to long. set to I. So ihave to transmit them in batch or blocks, but its too sloww. what shoul i do?. i need to do a program, or with a simple command i could solve the problem? (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to find a smarter way to process about 60,000 files in a single directory. Every night a script runs on each file generating a output on another directory; this used to take 5 hours, but as the data grows it is taking 7 hours. The files are of different sizes, but there are 16 cores... (10 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to search for a certain string in thousands of files and these files are distributed over different directories created daily. For that I created a small script in bash but while running it I am getting the below error: /ms.sh: xrealloc: subst.c:5173: cannot allocate... (17 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi to all, I have thousand of files in a folder with names with format "FILE-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM" for what I want to send the following AWK command awk '/Code.*/' FILE-2014* I'd like to separate all files that have the same date to a folder named with the corresponding date. For example, if I... (7 Replies)