1. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I find files in current folder only? We are on AIX 5.3, so maxdepth is not supported. I tried to do this find /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 -prune -type f to display all files in /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 only but it does not show any files. Somehow the -prune option works for dir3 level... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i find how many files are in use in a folder or its sub folders in unix i tried with fuser .. but i coulnt getting ... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, need help in writing a script in perl. requirement : 1. Search for the files in a particular folder 2. search for a string in the file names 3. Delete the file which matches the string. Ex: if the folder is C:\TEST and the folder has 5 files like 2009ABCG.txt 2009MNO.txt... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, We have an existing script: find /u03/oraprod/perpcomn/admin/out -type f -ctime +7 \ -exec cp {} "/u08/oraprod/backup/cout" \; Which is to find all files more than 7 days and copy to another folder. However I would like to only list files with Sep 29, and cp to another folder. ... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, *I use Uwin and Cygwin emulator. I´m trying to search for all text files in the current folder (C/Files) and its sub folders using find -depth -name "*.txt" The above command worked for me, but now I would like to copy all found text files to a new folder (C/Files/Text) with ... (4 Replies)

6. Cybersecurity

I have installed ubuntu. And I have create users ans groups. Suppose if the user enter into through Putty SSH. He should have access only to home folder and cannot move to other than $HOME. User should not able to root files and /$ files. Kindly provide solution. Regards Vasanth kumar (3 Replies)

7. Red Hat

To find a word from multiple level files: "find . -type f -exec grep {} +" is working on UNIX machines but not working on Linux machine. What is the equivalent command on Linux to find the word from multiple level files? Input is appreciated. (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a requirement to monitor the sub-directories under /home in a way that if the the folder size increases by 30 GB in a span of like an hour then it needs to send email alerts listing what as the actual size was and what's the current size which the subject listing the sub-directory... (25 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, So I have another question. I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy. So something like this: original: /path/to/file/test.txt after: /path/to/test.txt I had some great help recently with another... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Could it be possible to find common lines between all of the files in one folder? Just like comm -12 . So all of the files two at a time. I would like all of the outcomes to be written to a different files, and the file names could be simply numbers - 1 , 2 , 3 etc. All of the file names contain... (19 Replies)