1. Shell Programming and Scripting

so i have hundreds of files named history.20071112.tar (history.YYYYMMDD.tar) and im looking to extract one file out of each archive called status_YYYYMMDDHH:MM.lis here is what i have so far: for FILE in `cat dirlist` do tar xvf $FILE ./status_* done dirlist is a text... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to process consecutive jobs in a sequence but when I execute 1 job ,the control does not return to the command prompt to continue with the next job. Can anyone help me here? Thanks (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Bash/scripting newbie here - I feel this might be a trivial problem, but I'm not sure how to tackle it. I've got a folder of a year's worth of files, with some random number of files generated every day of the year (but at least one per day). I'm writing a script to automatically grab the file with... (6 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi. I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on..... Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone. I am new to shell scripting and i am required to create a shell script, the purpose of which i will explain below. I am on a solaris server btw. Before delving into the requirements, i will give youse an overview of what is currently in place and its purpose. ... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a UNIX script to sftp batch processing. Here is my sftp command. ftp -b toopc userid@sftp.hostname.com In the file toopc I have the following commands: mget *.csv bye This brings in all files with an extension of .csv However, I need to only bring in files that ... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm using awk command in bash script. I'm able to pass multiple files to awk for processing.The code i can use is as below(sample code) #!/bin/bash awk -F "," 'BEGIN { ... ... ... }' file1 file2 file3 In the above code i'm passing the file names manually and it is fine till my... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have some 50+ files in the following format : abcd_vish_running_ZEBRA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:23 abcd_vish_running_ZEB-RA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:35 abcd_vish_running_ZEB_RA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:37 abcd_vish_running_RI-NG_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:42... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I am newish to the site and to unix. I have a functioning interactive script running on Mac that sorts and processes files located in an unsorted folder on my desktop. As it currently stands, the user types jpg into the command line, the script executes and iterates through the unsorted... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im looking for 2 Files -> *.WAV and *.wav with find . -name 'unavail.wav' -o -name 'unavail.WAV' I need to list the Folders that contains these 2 Files? Thx in advance (13 Replies)