How to delete specific files with specific content?
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Originally Posted by sank
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:
Sank, you saved me a lot of headache! Thank you. I have another question:
How do i remove specific files with sepecific content?
For example:
I want to remove all files named readme.html which contain words "Please contact us". How to do that?
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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remove
remove(3C) Standard C Library Functions remove(3C)NAME
remove - remove file
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int remove(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The remove() function causes the file or empty directory whose name is the string pointed to by path to be no longer accessible by that
name. A subsequent attempt to open that file using that name will fail, unless the file is created anew.
For files, remove() is identical to unlink(). For directories, remove() is identical to rmdir().
See rmdir(2) and unlink(2) for a detailed list of failure conditions.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, remove() returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate an error.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO rmdir(2), unlink(2), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 remove(3C)