I need to make a copy of a directory keeping ownership, dates and links for all files intact. For that I'm using tar. Then I have to verify that the new directory and the old one are exactly the same (requirement is that the sums of all files are the same). The directory has many subdirectories and... (3 Replies)
I have a script that deletes obselete users from /etc/passwd then moves their home directories to another location. After 30 days, I need to delete the home directories that were moved to the new location. I would appreciate any ideas on how to delete the directories after the 30 days? (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I 'm trying to check if multiple directories exist on a server, if not create the missing ones and print " creating missing directory.
how to write this in a simple script, I have made my code complex
if ; then
taskStatus="Schema extract directory exists, checking if SQL,Count and... (7 Replies)
Hi
I have 10 directories.I want to delete all the dicrectories except the three recent directories based on timestamp.I am new to BASH can u help me? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a requirement like,
I need to create the directory with date and time stap (i.e YYYYMMDDHMS) every day end need to delete the old directories which is 12 months old. I have tested with following script
cd /export/home/sbeeravo/; find . -type d -mtime +365 -exec rm -rf {} \;
... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to delete Files from a directory using the below command
find $/test/abc/xyz -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
The above command is deleting the files more than 30 days.
The problem is there are some subdirectories in xyz,
when i execute the above command its trying to delete... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
My shell script runs everyday to update certain database. Everytime the script runs it creates a directory, with "current date". These directories contain log and data files:
HOME_DIR/database_name/20120417/*
HOME_DIR/database_name/20120416/*... (6 Replies)
Is there a way via some bash script or just cmd to find duplicate directories?
i have main folders:
TEST1
TEST2
In folder TEST1 is some amount of same folders as in folder TEST2
can be this done? i tried fdupe but it only search for dupe files not whle dirs
thx! (8 Replies)
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dirname
DIRNAME(1) User Commands DIRNAME(1)NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname [OPTION] NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output '.' (meaning the current
directory).
-z, --zero
separate output with NUL rather than newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
dirname /usr/bin/
-> "/usr"
dirname dir1/str dir2/str
-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"
dirname stdio.h
-> "."
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AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO basename(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'dirname invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 DIRNAME(1)