Unfortunately this is not portable. Maxdepth is not universal.
Judging by the examples posted if the directory is "three" and contains the file that's it, there was no maximum depth criteria set.
I appreciate everyone's help. I was surprised by the number of responses
The following will work fine if somone knows of a way to specify only the last 2 child most subdirectories in the find directory path (there can be a variable number of parent directories unfortunately, so I can't just '/*/*/child/child it):
Hi,
I have written one script to calculate total space of all file in one directory, ignoring subdirectory, it works fine.
Now, I've been trying to calculate all files which includes files in any subdirectories.
I use recursive function to do this, but it can work only if there is only one... (4 Replies)
I am writing a script which reads a file line by line and then assigns it to a variable like this 1090373422_4028715212.jpg. I have images with file name of this format in some other directory. In my script I want to assign variable with this file name and then find this filename in some other... (11 Replies)
I need to find whether there is a file named vijay is there or not in folder named "opt" .I tried "ls *|grep vijay" but it showed permission problem.
so i need to use find command (6 Replies)
Hi,
I want to list all the directory and subdirectories under any directory.
For eg. i am in a directory called A and want to check all directories under A.
Output should be as below.
/A
/A/a1
/A/a1/a2
/A/b1
/A/c1/c2
A,a1,a2,b1,c1 and c2 all are directories.Just for Eg.
Please... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I am trying to write something to find the size of particular type of files in a directory & it's subdirectory and sum the size .. These types of file are found at directory level or its subdirectories level ..
#!/bin/ksh
FNAME='.pdf'
S_PATH=/abc/def/xyz
find $S_PATH -exec ls -lad... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to organize my MB Pro by moving all my jpeg files to a single folder from the desktop. There are some on the desktop that are not in any folder. I was at the command line and typed
mv *.jpg "Jpeg files"
but it only moved the files that were on the desktop, not any of the ones that... (3 Replies)
Suppose i have a word "mail".
I have to search this word in all files inside a directory and it's sub-directories.
It will also search in all hidden directory and sub-directories.
If it finds this word in any file it will list that file.
How can i do this with perl/ruby/awk/sed/bash or... (9 Replies)
I used rm * and it deleted the files in the directory but gives and error message for unsuccessful subdirectory deletion.
"rm: cannot remove 'DirectoryName': Is a directory"
I dont want to explicitly get the above error.
What are the modifications I have to do in the rm command? (3 Replies)
I have a series of configuration files to deliver to multiple unix environments (dev, test, bench, prod etc). However I don't to modify them for each environment.
The files are text which currently contain this type of directory information
IN=/DVT/ms/sas/reception/PIL_QPA_SID/GSPIN001... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
My directory structure is like
Directory1
SubDirectory1
SubDirectory2
SubDirectory3
I have main directories and subdirectories underneath. I want to write a shell script where I will be passing file name as a parameter, Now I want to find all the files in Directory1... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: John William
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
fork
FORK(2) System Calls Manual FORK(2)NAME
fork - create a new process
SYNOPSIS
pid = fork()
int pid;
DESCRIPTION
Fork causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process except for the following:
The child process has a unique process ID.
The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process).
The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that, for
instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a descriptor in the child
process can affect a subsequent read or write by the parent. This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish standard
input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes.
The child processes resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2).
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, fork returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent
process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to
indicate the error.
ERRORS
Fork will fail and no child process will be created if one or more of the following are true:
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution would be exceeded. This limit is configuration-
dependent.
[EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit MAXUPRC (<sys/param.h>) on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would be
exceeded.
[ENOMEM] There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
SEE ALSO execve(2), wait(2)3rd Berkeley Distribution May 22, 1986 FORK(2)