01-22-2011
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do I get the modification time for files less than 6 months old?
(It seems for fles as old or older than this I get to see only the day,month and year. I tried the option -u but it gives me the last accessed time) (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Abhishek Ghose
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to copy files from a location to a directory <YYMM> based on last modification date? This will need to run daily.
I want to copy those file for May to 0905 and Jun to 0906.
Appreciate your guidance.:) Thanks.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Environment is cygwin on Windows Server 2003 as I could not think how I would achieve this using Windows tools.
What I want ot achieve is the following.
I have a Directory D:\Data which contains further subfolders and files. I need to move "files" older than 6 months modification time to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jelloir
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi. I need help my programing friends :p
I need to list all the files with a certain name (for example FileName) by last modification date but only the one with the last date. If there are two files with the same name and same modification date it should print the both.
For example in this set... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: KitFisto
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I was very surprised to not be able to find an answer to this question despite my best efforts in Google and elsewhere. Maybe it's a good thing as it forced me to finally become a member in this great forum that i use frequently.
Ok my question:
I want to be able to sort files inside a... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: stavros
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I have files like file1_Mod.txt, file2_Mod.txt. I want to rename the old files with the last modification date. I write the below script to rename with current date, but I donīt know how to use "date -r" to get the last modification date with the same format I have below... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following requirement;
I need to compare set of files in 2 different servers A and B.
Both have same sets of files and directory structure
First I need to move the files from Server A to server B
Compare the corresponding file in B server and see if it has modified (not... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vskr72
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know if is there a way to list files but ignoring some according to their modification time (or creation, access time, etc.) with the command 'ls' alone.
I know the option -I exist, but it seems to only looking in the file name..
Thank you in advance for the... (8 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi @all!
In my MySQL-backup-script I backup and compress every single table with this command:
/usr/bin/mysqldump --opt database_x table_y | /usr/bin/pbzip2 -c > "/media/BackUpDrive/Backup/table_x.gz"Unfortunately these files need modification - they have to start with the following line(s):... (7 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I have a problem, I have a large group of archive files in a folder some are later versions of the same archive, the only difference btween them is that the archiving program we use appends the name with a code for it to keep track of in its data base, and the modification date.
I am starting... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Paul Walker
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paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)
Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Also
cut(1), grep(1), pr(1)
paste(1)