1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I was trying the following "find" command to search for a particular file in UNIX directories: find / -name <filename> -print Result on the screen appears like: find: cannot open <..> ..permission denied Is there any way, I could avoid these type of search results and only see the... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Is there any function in Unix by which v can find the exact day of any given date. Like i need to get Wednesday if i give 05 07 2008 (format MM DD YYYY) Thanks, RRVARMA (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i am a newbie and have to write a rather complicated script. Assume that i have a variable called x and a C source code file say file1.c (these are the inputs of the script) and i need to find the names of all the functions in the C file containing x.Take the following code as an example: ... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Im using a find function to find a specific file and print it. eg. find /path -name filename -type f -print -exec more '{}' \; The problem I have is that I need to know if the file has not been fount (ie it does not exist). I had a look at the find function and could not find anything... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have an error in my logs as it shows some function name . 1. I dnt know where is the file.cpp located only i know the machine . 2. How to find out that the function name is loacated in which path and which file into that machine. Thanks . (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, Is there any way to find a function name in a program file using perl. for example, there is a file called Test.C in that . . void function1(..) { <some code> } int function2(..) { . . sam() /*RA abc100*/ ... .. .. xyz()/*RA abc201*/ .. (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to use a function in the find command to do some process on the file. I'm trying: funcname(){ ... } ... find ./ -name "*" -exec funcname {} \; But somehow this is not working. I don't want to have a separate script for whatever processing the function does. I want to have... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, There is requirement where I need to search if a particular directory name is present or not and if its present I need to collate the paths of the directories in a file. I tried the below command echo $(find /home/mqm -name "check")>>config.txt Its saving the paths in one line(like... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody, I want your help on what, I suppose, might seem a simple task to many of you. the deal is to write a script that will look in a specific folder to see if there is any file whose size is bigger than say 1M and if so to execute a command. like if then log_rotate fi ... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script which does gunzip, zip and untar. Input to the script is file name and file directory (where file is located) I am reading the input parameters as follows: FILENAME=$1 FILEDIR=$2 I have created 3 functions that are as follows: 1) gunzip file 2) unzip file... (2 Replies)