This turned out to be quite complex and interesting . Please test on expendable data.
My proposed solution appears grossly inefficient because it invokes cpio for every file. On a modern system it is hard to beat for speed.
The script copies the file and then deletes the file.
See both "man find" and "man cpio" for the interaction between "find" and "cpio" when copying files.
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Hi all,
I have installed an application (RRDTool) in /usr/local directory, Can any one tell me how I can move this to some other location along with the libraries.
Thanks in Advance. (3 Replies)
I need help in forming a script to copy files from one location which has a sub directory structure to another location with similar sub directory structure,
say location 1,
/home/rick/tmp_files/1-12/00-25/
here 1-12 are the number of sub directories under tmp_files and 00-25 are sub... (1 Reply)
Create a script that copies files from one specified directory to another specified directory, in the order they were created in the original directory between specified times. Copy the files at a specified interval. (2 Replies)
There are two similar directory structures existing, e.g. old/ and new/, where
old/d1/d2/d4/, old/d1/d2/d5/, old/d1/d3/d6/ and old/d1/d3/d7 contains some files and now I want to move those files from each folder to new locations new/d1/d2/d4/, new/d1/d2/d5/, new/d1/d3/d6/ and new/d1/d3/d6/.
The... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
I am using below script and facing some problems..
cd /home/user/test
rm ftp://ftp.log
Example: A_Bachfile_09292011.txt
A=`ls -1 "A*.txt"`
compress $A
C=`ls -1 "A*`
hostname="test.gmail.com"
user="raju"
Password="******"
ftp -n $hostname <<EOF >>ftp.lpg... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to write a script that will loop on all of my oracle databases on a server and move archivelogs from archive destination to a different location.
I do have a function to loop on all databases on a server. I want help in writing a fuction to dynamically get the archive... (1 Reply)
Hi friends,
I have one XML file having below structure :-
INput XML file :-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<START>
<A=value1>
<attr name1="a1">
</A>
<B=value2>
<attr name2="b1">
<attr name3="c1">
</B>
</START>
output xml file should be
=== (3 Replies)
hi,
when i do ftp from unix to laptop which is running a windows os, it lands in a root folder.
can i move a file from this root ftp folder to any other location in my laptop
say , c:\files\ folder?
i used rename command inside ftp , but it says incorrect parameter. (5 Replies)
A) I would like to achive following actions using shell script. can someone help me with writing the shell script
1) Go to some dir ( say /xyz/logs ) and then perform find operation in this dir and list of subdir using
find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -li 1367A49001CP0162 >... (1 Reply)