If the intention is to remove all the files having the given pattern, it could be done as follows:
But if you want to just remove the given pattern from the files in which it occurs, use this:
Last edited by Scott; 01-07-2010 at 03:25 AM..
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Hi,
I have a situation where I need to delete multiple files from a folder once I connect to FTP server. I am using ftp script to get the files, number of files always vary from 1 to 100. once I get the files I need to delete all the files downloaded I am making a list of all the files... (4 Replies)
Hey guys,
I'd like to delete all text within a text file without actually deleting the file. Is there a vi command I can do from my prompt without actually going into the file and doing a %d i think it is... to remove all the text inside?
I want to add this to a cron job to erase all the data... (2 Replies)
hallo..i work in c-shell and i want to delete the content of a file without deleting the file itself...commands like
>filename or
echo -n > filename
didn't work....thanks in advance (2 Replies)
I have a directory full of text data files.
Unfortunately I need to get rid of the 7th and 8th line from them all so that I can input them into a GIS application.
I've used an awk script to do one at a time but due to the sheer number of files I need some kind of loop mechanism to automate... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to rename multiple files with their first line bar the first character + the extension .qual. For the example below the filename should read
7180000000987.qual. I have trawled through different threads for 2 days and I don't seem to find anything I can adopt for this task :confused:
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory that contains say 100 files named sequencially like input_1.25_50_C1.txt
input_1.25_50_C2.txt
input_1.25_50_C3.txt
input_1.25_50_C4.txt
..
..
..
input_1.25_50_C100.txt
an example of the content in each of the file is:
"NAME" "MEM.SHIP"
"cgd1_10" "cgd1_10"... (9 Replies)
I'm baffled..... the system I work on creates files every Mon-Friday
I'm trying to delete all files older than 30 days old from a Unix prompt, the command I'm using is:
find /directory/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
however it returns /directory/filename: 644 mode ? (y/n) for every file! ... (1 Reply)
I have a file details.csv and I need to create 5 files in same folder named as details1.csv,details2.csv,details3.csv,details4.csv,details5.csv along with contents of details.csv
Thanks in Advance. (9 Replies)
Hello,
I have a server that I have to ftp files off and they all start SGRD and are followed by 6 numbers.
SGRD000001
SGRD000002
SGRD000003
The script I have will run every 10 mins to pick up files as new ones will be coming in all the time and what I want to do is delete the files I have... (7 Replies)
Dear Experts
my scenario is as follows...
I have one source folder "Source" and 2 target folders "Target_123456" & "Target_789101". I have 2 series of files. 123456 series and 789101 series. Each series has got 3 types of fiels "Debit", "Refund", "Claims".
All files are getting... (17 Replies)
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exec(1) User Commands exec(1)NAME
exec, eval, source - shell built-in functions to execute other commands
SYNOPSIS
sh
exec [argument...]
eval [argument...]
csh
exec command
eval argument...
source [-h] name
ksh
*exec [arg...]
*eval [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new process. Input/output arguments may
appear and, if no other arguments are given, cause the shell input/output to be modified.
The arguments to the eval built-in are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
eval reads its arguments as input to the shell and executes the resulting command(s). This is usually used to execute commands generated as
the result of command or variable substitution.
source reads commands from name. source commands may be nested, but if they are nested too deeply the shell may run out of file descrip-
tors. An error in a sourced file at any level terminates all nested source commands.
-h Place commands from the file name on the history list without executing them.
ksh
With the exec built-in, if arg is given, the command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new
process. Input/output arguments may appear and affect the current process. If no arguments are given the effect of this command is to mod-
ify file descriptors as prescribed by the input/output redirection list. In this case, any file descriptor numbers greater than 2 that are
opened with this mechanism are closed when invoking another program.
The arguments to eval are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
EXIT STATUS
For ksh:
If command is not found, the exit status is 127. If command is found, but is not an executable utility, the exit status is 126. If a redi-
rection error occurs, the shell exits with a value in the range 1-125. Otherwise, exec returns a zero exit status.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Jul 2002 exec(1)