08-31-2010
Not all OSes have the stat command. I was hoping your's has it and wanted to see what information is stored in the i-node to make sure. Maybe you checkout which command on your OS can show i-node entries for a file to investigate the problem further.
On linux it is stat for example, on AIX it is istat. You can tell us your OS so we can help searching.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
The purpose of those comands are to find the newest file in a directory acvrdind to system date, and it has to be recursively found in each directory.
The problem is that i want to list in a long format every found file, but the commands i use produce unexpected results ,so the output lists in a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: alexcol
5 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a '~' delimited file of 6 - 7 million rows. Each row should contain 13 columns delimited by 12 ~'s. Where there are 13 tildes, the row needs to be removed. Each row contains alphanumeric data and occasionally a ~ ends up in a descriptive field and therefore acts as a delimiter, resulting in... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kpd
1 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to awk a value out of a file and see if it exists in another file.
My if statement below returns a positive even if the value doesn't exist.
The kky3 is finding the correct field for the value.
cat $PRE | while read a
do
kky2=`echo $a | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
echo "kky2 "... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: MizzGail
5 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
suppose i have a txt file containing thye following data
2012156|sb3|nwknjps|BAYONNE|NJ|tcg
201221|094|mtnnjprc:HACKENSACK|NJ|tcg
201222|wn3|mtnnjtc|HACKENSACK|NJ|tcg
2018164|ik4|mtnntc|JERSEY CITY|NJ|tcg
20123482|ik4|mtnnjpritc,JERSEY CITY|NJ|tcg... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: priyanka3006
3 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi again All :)
After posting my first thread just a few eeks ago and having such a great response (Thank You once again :) ), I thought I'd perhaps ask the experts again. In short I'm trying to achieve a "find" and "copy" where the find needs to find directories:
find -d -name outbox
and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Dean Rotherham
6 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I believe what is happening is rm is executing in the script on every directory and on failure of the first it stops although returns status 0.
find $HOME -name /directory/filename | xargs -l rm
This is the code I use but file remains. I am using sun solaris system which has way limited... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ebodee
4 Replies
7. Linux
Hi all,
I have a question..
Here is my requirement..I have 500 files in a path say /a/b/c
I have some numbers in a file which are comma seperated...and I wanted to check if the numbers are present in the FileName in the path /a/b/c..if the number is there in the file that is fine..but if... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: us_pokiri
1 Replies
8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I am a newbie here. I have this requirement to find a file based on a pattern then return the filename if found.
I created a script based on online tutorials. Though, I am stuck & really appreciate if anyone can have a quick look & point me to the right direction?
#Script starts... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: buster_t
10 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty.
I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: verdepollo
3 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Forum,
We have two bootstraps of Chef in our environment which are identified by colour:
/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/bootstrap_cookbooks_version_green
and
/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/bootstrap_cookbooks_version_red
I'm attempting to identify which version is installed based on the name... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: greavette
11 Replies
STAT(2) System Calls Manual STAT(2)
NAME
stat, fstat - get file status
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
stat(name, buf)
char *name;
struct stat *buf;
fstat(fildes, buf)
struct stat *buf;
DESCRIPTION
Stat obtains detailed information about a named file. Fstat obtains the same information about an open file known by the file descriptor
from a successful open, creat, dup or pipe(2) call.
Name points to a null-terminated string naming a file; buf is the address of a buffer into which information is placed concerning the file.
It is unnecessary to have any permissions at all with respect to the file, but all directories leading to the file must be searchable. The
layout of the structure pointed to by buf as defined in <stat.h> is given below. St_mode is encoded according to the `#define' statements.
The mode bits 0000070 and 0000007 encode group and others permissions (see chmod(2)). The defined types, ino_t, off_t, time_t, name vari-
ous width integer values; dev_t encodes major and minor device numbers; their exact definitions are in the include file <sys/types.h> (see
types(5).
When fildes is associated with a pipe, fstat reports an ordinary file with restricted permissions. The size is the number of bytes queued
in the pipe.
st_atime is the file was last read. For reasons of efficiency, it is not set when a directory is searched, although this would be more
logical. st_mtime is the time the file was last written or created. It is not set by changes of owner, group, link count, or mode.
st_ctime is set both both by writing and changing the i-node.
SEE ALSO
ls(1), filsys(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
Zero is returned if a status is available; -1 if the file cannot be found.
ASSEMBLER
(stat = 18.)
sys stat; name; buf
(fstat = 28.)
(file descriptor in r0)
sys fstat; buf
STAT(2)