Probably it's finding more than one hit, so it's trying to store multiple lines in a single variable. Perhaps if we knew more about the objective we could better craft a reply. You may be looking down the lines of a loop such that
I added the sort as the find will search (probably) in inode order and if there are subdirectories involved, that could get very messy.
I hope that this gets you started, but post more infor on what you want to do with them and someone may pop up more complete code.
Hi,
I have a requirement that i need to store only the filename without its extension. Can anyone please help me to do this.
For Example, i have stored the filename in a varialble called fname. I need to extract all the charecters before the first occurence of the dot.
If fname has value... (3 Replies)
If I do "ls -l filename" in a script, it should return something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 5945 Feb 28 14:24 filename
How do I put each of the above strings into a different variable?
eg Permissions, username, groupname, date (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to extract users environment variables via a sh script, and for some reason it is not working.
According to the su man page: Example 3: Executing command with user bin's Environment and
Permissions
To execute command with the temporary environment and per-... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Any help on this would be very appreciated.
I capture the full path & filename in a variable like (varFile=/home/user/extfile.txt). Now in my shell script I have to use only the filename part i.e. extfile.txt. How do I extract only the filename part from the variable?
Thanks in... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extract the file name without filetype.
Suppose in DIR1 if i have files like F1.txt and F2.DOC then i need to return F1 and F2 only with out file types (txt and DOC).
I tried with the following code
newname = ` $i | cut -d "'." -f1`
but it is giving the error " 0403-006... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am a beginner in Unix so please bear with me...
I have a directory which has files in format: RECF-YYYY-MM-DD-input. For example, RECF-2008-02-25-input. I need to extract the YYYYY-MM-DD substring from this filename and convert that into date and compare it with a date. How do I do that?... (7 Replies)
Hello all.
I can not remember the command to extract a variable from the date command.
Basically what I need to do is to store the values of date in variable and rearrange them. I can not remember the command or the syntax to do so.
so..
date
Mon Mar 8 06:57:19 GMT 2010
$1 $2 ... (12 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I am looking for a way to extract substrings to local variables. Here is the format of the string variable i am using :
/var/x/www && /usr/x/share/doc && /etc/x/logs
where the substrings i must extract are the "/var/x/www" and such.
I was originally thinking of using... (15 Replies)
Hi
I would like to extract the first portion of filename from a list of files.
The filename pattern is of the form 123456789_TEXT_TEXT_TEXT_.csv. I want to extract just the numerical portion of this filename from the list of files and then output this into another text file.
K (6 Replies)
I am using bash and have a filename with a path and extension and want to extract just the filename
Have used the following code, oflna gives the file name with extension, but now neet to remove the .texi at the end.
oflna=${flnm##*/}
oflnb=${${flnm##*/}%.*}
echo "flnm: $flnm"
echo... (1 Reply)