Could someone help me please. I'm trying to write a shell script that prints the number of files I have in my home directory. Files only though, directories not included. I was thinking about using a pipe that includes wc but I don't know any commands that isolate the number of files you have in... (4 Replies)
Everyone,
We are on a unix AIX 4.3 platform and our application is written as such that all configuration files must reside in a specific directory. Currently there are over 10,000 files in this directory (and growing at about 300 per month). My question is is there a physical limit to the... (2 Replies)
Some simple questions from a simple man.
If i wanted to count the number of files contained within a directory, say /tmp would ls -l /tmp ¦ wc -l suffice and will it be accurate?
second one: How would i check the number of files with a certain string in the filename, in the same directory.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix shell scripting.I am using Korn shell.
I need to find if there are any files in a particular directory.first I need to find the number of files in the directory.If the file count is greater than 0 then I have to print the file names in a textfile and send an email to the... (5 Replies)
I have a directory which has lots of directories and files in it. I want to determine the total number of files in the top level directory (inclduing the files in sub-dirs)
Is there a unix command of that ?/
Thanks !!! (3 Replies)
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
I can't find how to do this.
I want to take a bulk of files, and copy/move a specific number of them (say 1000) to a newly created directory. Once that directory is full, I want to create a new folder and copy/move another batch of files, and so on.
Seems like there should be an easy way to... (6 Replies)
Hi!
I just want to count number of files in a directory, and write to new text file, with number of files and their name
output should look like this,,
assume that below one is a new file created by script
Number of files in directory = 25
1. a.txt
2. abc.txt
3. asd.dat... (20 Replies)
Discussion started by: Akshay Hegde
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xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1) User Commands xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1)NAME
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update - Graphical User Interface for xdg-user-dirs-update.
SYNOPSIS
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
DESCRIPTION
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update is automatically run on login to the GNOME desktop environment to aid in the management of the locale specific XDG
User Directories.
Should the user be starting a session that is using a different locale to that which was used to create the original XDG User Directories,
then the user will be prompted to make a decision on whether to update the XDG User Directories to the new locale or leave them unchanged.
The original locale that was used to create the initial set of XDG User Directories on first login is stored in the file ${XDG_CON-
FIG_HOME}/user-dirs.locale.
Should the user decide to update to the current locale, then xdg-user-dirs-update will be used to perform the desired action.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:
HOME.
Other environment variable that are used are:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
Application to manage updates to user's XDG User Directories
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.locale
Locale used in the initial creation of the current XDG User Directories and what they map to.
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs
Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxdg-user-dirs-gtk |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
More information can be found at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dir(1), attributes(5)NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008
SunOS 5.11 03 Apr 2008 xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1)
02-16-2010
Number of files per directory
