I have a report file that is generated every day by a scheduled process.
Each day the file is written to a directory named .../blah_blah/Y07/MM-DD-YY/reportmmddyy.tab
I want to copy all of this reports to a separate directory without having to do it one by one.
However, if I try
cp... (3 Replies)
Hello there, I'm a total noob to shell scripting. :)
What I want to do is compare the contents of Folder A and Folder B, and copy any files in Folder A that do not exist in Folder B over to Folder B.
I have gotten so far as:
diff -rq folderA folderB
which returns the names of the files,... (3 Replies)
how can i copy those files into other directories have the same name but different in the end
i have files in directory called test:
10_10_asdadfsdfad.txt
10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd.txt
10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd.txt
i want to put them in exist directory thart i have on my system
i have... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Please help me, how to get all the direcotries, its sub directories and its sub directories recursively, need to exclude all the files in the process.
I wanted to disply using a unix command all the directories recursively excluding files.
I tried 'ls -FR' but that display files as... (3 Replies)
I am in a situation where I have some hundreds of thousands of files in a directory (name of directory: big_directory). Now, working on this directory is extremely slow.
I now plan to do this:
Copy 1000 files in each of the directories by creating the directories automatically. All files have... (1 Reply)
my directory structure is like below:
basedir\
p.txt
q.htm
r.java
b\
abc.htm
xyz.java
c\
p.htm
q.java
rst.txt
my requirement is i want to copy all the files and directories... (0 Replies)
So I have extremely limited experience with shell scripting and I was hoping someone could point out a few commands I need to use in order to pull this off with a shell script like BASH or whatnot (this is on OS X).
I need to search out for filenames with account numbers in the name itself... (3 Replies)
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to copy the files to respective directories based on name of the file. My script is something like below
con=$1
for file in `cat $con`
do
file_tmp=$(ls -t1 $path| grep -i $file | head -n 1)
echo $file_tmp
if
then
cp $path$file_tmp $DIR/ap
if
then... (16 Replies)
hello.
I try to print a list of files but excluding some directories and some files.
I would like to write a command for :
find "from_dir" "ignore dir1, dir2, ..." "ignore file1, file2,...." "where file are older than 2017-02-03T06:00:00"
Note that "DO_IT" is a local function in the script... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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mdfind
mdfind(1) BSD General Commands Manual mdfind(1)NAME
mdfind -- finds files matching a given query
SYNOPSIS
mdfind [-live] [-count] [-onlyin directory] [-name fileName] query
DESCRIPTION
The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a
string or a query expression.
The following options are available:
-0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunction with xargs -0.
-live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the number of files matching the query. When an update causes the query
results to change the number of matches is updated. The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C.
-count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the matching items.
-onlyin dir
Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified.
-name fileName
Searches for matching file names only.
-literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpretation.
-interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into the Spotlight menu. For example, the
string "search" would produce the following query string:
(* = search* cdw || kMDItemTextContent = search* cdw)
EXAMPLES
The following examples are shown as given to the shell.
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "image":
mdfind image
This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAuthor metadata attribute:
mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'"
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "skateboard". The find continues to run after gathering the
initial results, providing a count of the number of files that match the query.
mdfind -live skateboard
To get a list of the available attributes for use in constructing queries, see mdimport(1), particularly the -X switch.
SEE ALSO mdimport(1), mdls(1), mdutil(1), xargs(1)Mac OS X June 10, 2004 Mac OS X