Hello,
I would like to list the files from all directories that has been modified more than 1 month ago, and whose name is like '*risk*log'.
I think a script like this should work :
ls -R | find -name '*risk*.log' -mtime 30 -type f
But it tells me "no file found" though I can see some.
... (4 Replies)
I want to count how many levels there are under a directory. I repeat level.
Also how i count only all the files in a directoy ( all files of all directories of all leves down!)
and how can i count only all the directories under a directory (including subdirectories, all levels down)
... (2 Replies)
Hi All I am writting a script that does a comparison between files in 2 diffectent directories.
To do this I need a command that will list out only the files in a give directory and omit any sub dorectories with that directory. But I am unable to find it.
Please Help.
I tried
ls... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am looking for the correct syntax to find all files in the current directory without listing sub-directoris. I was using the following command, but it still returns subdirectoris and files inside them:
$ ls -laR | grep -v ^./
Any idea? Thanks
PS I am in ksh88 (4 Replies)
Hi,
Please help me, how to get all the direcotries, its sub directories and its sub directories recursively, need to exclude all the files in the process.
I wanted to disply using a unix command all the directories recursively excluding files.
I tried 'ls -FR' but that display files as... (3 Replies)
I want to search a server beginning at /home and list directories with more than X files
I found a hack that injects tons of files into a directory
How can I search the server recursively and list directories with more than X files?
Thank you!
like,
find /home (directories, that meet the... (5 Replies)
Hello, can you please help me writing a command that would output the biggest files on my system from biggest to smallest? I want this to print only the files, not the directories.
I have tried
du -a ~ | sort -nr | head -10
However, this also prints out all the directories - which I do... (8 Replies)
Can anyone come up with a unix command that lists
all the files, directories and sub-directories in the current directory
except a folder called log.?
Thank you in advance. (7 Replies)
I'm trying to make a script that will list all directories under a selection as well as the number of files in each.
I cannot get it to work under a symbolic link.
The file structure is:
XXX_20131127_001
dir01 (sym link)
2404x912
file.0000.xxx to
... (10 Replies)
Hi everyone
My issue is this, I need to list all the sub directories in a directory that contains files that have the extension *.log, *.dat and *.out . After reviewing the output i need to delete those directories i do not need. I am running Solaris 10 in a bash shell. I have a script that I... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)