Cool it was the spaces in the filename, it's working now once i remove the spaces with this script i got from ubuntuforums.org
Code:
#!/bin/bash
IFS='
'
j=`find $1 -printf "%d\n" | sort -u | tail -n 1`
echo "Max dir depth:" $j
for (( i=0; i<=j ; i++ ))
do
for name in `find -mindepth $i -maxdepth $i -iname "* *" -printf "%p\n"`
do
newname=`echo "$name" | tr " " "_"`
echo "$name" "$newname"
mv "$name" "$newname"
done
done
Then i just used ctsgnb's suggestion above and it worked a treat. The "rm" part doesn't work but i can do that manually so no worried. Thanks ctsgnb
@methyl: thannks dude i wish it was a simple as that example but it doesn't work for me. I get a "paths must precede expression" error probably due to the os. Thanks for helping out
Hi all
Is it possible to copy a structure of a directory only.
e.g.
I have a file with the following entries that is a result of a find :-
/dir1/dir2/file.dbf
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file1.dbf
/dir1/file.dbf
I want to copy these to a directory and keep the structure however starting at a new dir... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to write a script that will move all the files from source directory structure(multiple levels might exist) to destination directory structure. If a sub folder is source doesnot exist in destination then I have to skip and goto next level. I also need to delete the files in... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Has anyone tried to restrict Solaris 10 unix find on a large directory structure based on time to stop running after finding the first occurrence of a matching query. Basically I'm trying to build up a usage map of user workspaces based on file modification (week/month/3 months/year etc) and... (3 Replies)
Hi
How to create a directory structure with getting input from a file.
I have file in that following lines are written.
./activemq-4.1.2/activemq-core-4.1.2.jar
./activemq-4.1.2/backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar
./camel-1.4.0/apache-camel-1.4.0.jar
./camel-1.4.0/lib/activation-1.1.jar... (12 Replies)
I am adding some individual files to a tar archive and would like them to be added to the archive without any directory hierarchy, even though the files themselves exist in levels of hierarchy. Unfortunately, tar seems to always preserve the directory hierarchy when it adds the files.
Here is... (2 Replies)
What I'm attempting to do is create a script that will do a search for directories that meet the following criteria:
find . -name "config" -type d
this comes back with:
./dir1/anotherDir/test_dir/config
./dir1/anotherDir/test_dira/config
./dir2/test/test_dir/config
The results could... (4 Replies)
I'm using this now:
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /bin/cp -uv {} /some/path/ \;
but it doesn't preserve the directory structure, also I've tried it with
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /usr/bin/rsync -auv {} /some/path/ \;
but that doesn't... (9 Replies)
Can we create the master file that show the whole tree structure of the directory till a particular folder?
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Hello ; ) again
Now I have my file like this :
DIR2/DIR3
DIR2
DIR2/DIR3/DIR4/DIR5
I am looking for help to create a loop that will create the directory structure.
I need something like this :
If "DIR2" does not exist > Create
IF "DIR2" exist already > check if onther "DIR"... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
is there any work around to generate the file and directory structure like below at left side at Output? and exclude all file except .abc .txt
Current Directory structure
|-------------files
|---------------Share
|-----------------dir1
|-----------------dir2... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: heros
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
gzexe
GZEXE(1) General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
SYNOPSIS
gzexe [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
penalty in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat'' it will create the following two files:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
/bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing executable file. You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
/bin/cat works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
OPTIONS -d Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
SEE ALSO gzip(1), gznew(1), gzmore(1), gzcmp(1), gzforce(1)CAVEATS
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the
PATH environment variable to find gzip and some other utilities (tail, chmod, ln, sleep).
BUGS
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,
using chmod or chown.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgzip |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | External |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package.
GZEXE(1)