You can use printf option within find command too, as follow: Or without printing paths given by "ls" output : Or simply: * find command as shown above will print only files ("-type f") in current folder and within its subfolders. If you only want
to print files within current folder (not subfolders) you must add "- maxdepth 1" option after dot.
Hope it helps.
I am using command substitution into a find command in a script where I have built a menu to do a bunch of tasks within my unix account. When I choose the options for to find a file/files that have the same inode of the entered filename, ie hardlinks, nothing shows up. When I choose the appropiate... (2 Replies)
Hi all!
How would you do the equivalent of find ! -type f..... under windows?
Meaning, how under a directory could you find all files except those named *.mp3 for example?
the command under linux would be:
find $DIR ! -name "*.mp3" what would be that under windows?
Thanx for any ideas... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to clean up my samba share and need to print the found file or print the path of the image it tried to searched for. So far I have this but can't seem to get the logic right. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
for FILE in `cat list`; do
if ;
then
... (1 Reply)
Hi i would like to ask on how to accomplish the FF:
I want to execute a find command recursively and only get the filename something like i want only the last field set if is used ever the fieldvset as an redirection from the output of the find command
For example:
dir1/dir2/filename1... (2 Replies)
Hi All
When we use find command command in Unix we get the result as
/home/user/folder/filename1
/home/user/folder/filename2
/home/user/folder/filename3
Is it possible that i only get the file name
The expected output when using find command is
filename1
filename2
filename3
I am... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I am working in solaris.I am using below script to copy the files from /usr/tmp to /usr/gm
But while running this it is not considering the files list after the filename having space in them.
Example:-
compile_custom_pll.sh
conv_data_sqlload.sh
conv_sqlload.sh
Copy of... (5 Replies)
Running below command , but unable to print the filename , is there way to print filename/dirname using -print option
find . -type f -exec aclput -i fileacl.template {} \; (5 Replies)
Can anyone help me to find the data and management IP address on a IBM unix server without looking at the /etc/hosts file. sometimes the hosts file may not make it obvious between the data & mgmt ip addresses. thanks (5 Replies)
Hello.
From a script, a command for a test is use :
find /home/user_install -maxdepth 1 -type f -newer /tmp/000_skel_file_deb ! -newer /tmp/000_skel_file_end -name '.bashrc' -o -name '.profile' -o -name '.gtkrc-2.0' -o -name '.i18n' -o -name '.inputrc'
Tha command... (3 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)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 v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)