Did you get any error?
too many argument limits are there for everything.. ( ls, rm, etc )
I am not sure what is the exact limit for it and on what it is based on ( os? shell? )
but you can always get rid of that with using exec and xargs
how do you populates these file-names? with find probably ?
if yes, then something better is there i think..
A good place to start is simple variable passing....
Passing variables from one script to another
The next level is passing a variable into a more complex command such as using a variable in a sed command. There are some simple quoting techniques that are very general. These are mentioned... (0 Replies)
I have a problem where tar is somehow creating duplicate filenames when tarring a directory. Doing an ls on the directory does not show any duplicate filenames, yet when the directory is tarred, you can see that there are duplicates:
bash-2.03# pwd
/var/log/cricket
bash-2.03# ls -1 | sort |... (2 Replies)
Hi there, i have been working on a backup script and have it just about working, the only problem im left with is that my filenames for my backups are all the same are replacing one another when backing up.
currently i have
BACKUP_FILE=backup_$(date +%d%m%y).tgz
but would like something like... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a shell script "Test.ksh" and I need to pass 8 parameters/arguments while executing the script
./Test.ksh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Out of these I want first 3 to be compulsory and rest 5 to be optional. Can you suggest the way to do this like and also how to pass these optional... (3 Replies)
Dear experts,
I have to take back up of 1.8TB data in single cmd. I have tape which has the capasity of 600 GB. Hence i want to use multiple tapes to take the backup using tar cmd.
Kindly help.
-Anand (8 Replies)
Hello friends,
I have a boubt passing different arguments at a time for any one option in below code.
I would also like to check which option has been selected (any one of i, r, u ) so that whether or not matching argument passed can be verified.
for i and r - install and re-install -... (4 Replies)
Hello, I have a series of files in sub-directories that I want to loop through, process and name according to the input filename and the various parameters I'm using to process the files. I have a number of each, for example file names like AG005574, AG004788, AG003854 and parameter values like... (2 Replies)
Hi, I'm working on HP-UX B.11.23 64bit. I tried to tar couple of directories but failed to do so.
$ tar -cvf tar_file_name -C /dir1 /dir2
the -C is for directories as mentioned in the man pages. But still unable to create a tar file having directories and sub-directories.
Requesting help in... (1 Reply)
Based on arguments passing in command prompt values should fetch and store in new file.
Sample:-
sh test.sh 10 30 35 45
cat test.sh
..
cut -c $1-$2,$3-$4 file_name >> file_new
...
...
Above sample passing 4 arguments.. but it may differ (sh test.sh 10 30 35 45 70 75 ) based on... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Is there a special positional variables for when using the dot (.)?
Scripts are as below:
$: head -100 x.ksh /tmp/y.ksh
==> x.ksh <==
#!/bin/ksh
#
. /tmp/y.ksh 1234 abcd
echo "yvar1 = $yvar1"
echo "yvar2 = $yvar2"
==> /tmp/y.ksh <==
#!/bin/ksh (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chroot
chroot(1M) System Administration Commands chroot(1M)NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/chroot newroot command
DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility causes command to be executed relative to newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the path names is changed
to newroot for command and any of its child processes. Upon execution, the initial working directory is newroot.
Notice that redirecting the output of command to a file,
chroot newroot command >x
will create the file x relative to the original root of command, not the new one.
The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a chroot is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to
the current root of the running process.
This command can be run only by the super-user.
RETURN VALUES
The exit status of chroot is the return value of command.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the chroot Utility
The chroot utility provides an easy way to extract tar files (see tar(1)) written with absolute filenames to a different location. It is
necessary to copy the shared libraries used by tar (see ldd(1)) to the newroot filesystem.
example# mkdir /tmp/lib; cd /lib
example# cp ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 libdl.so.1
libsec.so.1 /tmp/lib
example# cp /usr/bin/tar /tmp
example# dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | chroot /tmp tar xvf -
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cd(1), tar(1), chroot(2), ttyname(3C), attributes(5)NOTES
Exercise extreme caution when referencing device files in the new root file system.
References by routines such as ttyname(3C) to stdin, stdout, and stderr will find that the device associated with the file descriptor is
unknown after chroot is run.
SunOS 5.11 15 Dec 2003 chroot(1M)