Easily solved with -d '\n' for the most part. It does have -d though. Oh, goodie. 300 miles more rope to hang ourselves with. I think you missed my point -- xargs would know the maximum size of args for the system already and split accordingly.
Shoving the too many args into backticks and for doesn't make too many args not be too many args. You have to do while read FILENAME ; do stuff ; done
Where is -d option ? and all system has it ?
Yep..xargs must know max-args
we don't need xargs because of shell internals is enough
I can all process in for loop but we can use while loop when required control expression
hi,
i want to write the script to list atleast one file inside that directory
eg:
/home/Log/amp01
/home/log/amp02
.
.
.
/home/log/amp..N
want to see atleast one file inside the /home/log/amp01 .... amp(N)
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and getting told off for bumping the thread:(
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I have searched this forum for related posts but could not find one that fits mine. I have a shell script which removes all the XML tags including the text inside the tags from some 4 million XML files.
The shell script looks like this (MODIFIED):
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I've some directory that I used as working directory for a program. At the end of the procedure, the content is deleted. This directory, when I do a ls -l, appears to still take up some space. After a little research, I've seen on a another board of this forum that it's not really taking... (5 Replies)
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How about an md5sum sanity check too?
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hi,
I am having script in which i want to check if directory has any file in it or not. If directory contains a single or more files then and only then it should proceed to further operations...
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Hi,
I require shell script to check for any pending files which are sitting in the particular directory for more than 10 hours.
Please help me on this...Thank you. (5 Replies)
Hello Folks,
On Below Script, I want to apply condition.
Condition that it check the directory for files if not found keep checking.
Once directory have files and founded do the calculation and finish the code.
Script to check the files existence inside a directory, If not then keep... (16 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
mdfind
mdfind(1) BSD General Commands Manual mdfind(1)NAME
mdfind -- finds files matching a given query
SYNOPSIS
mdfind [-live] [-count] [-onlyin directory] [-name fileName] query
DESCRIPTION
The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a
string or a query expression.
The following options are available:
-0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunction with xargs -0.
-live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the number of files matching the query. When an update causes the query
results to change the number of matches is updated. The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C.
-count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the matching items.
-onlyin dir
Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified.
-name fileName
Searches for matching file names only.
-literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpretation.
-interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into the Spotlight menu. For example, the
string "search" would produce the following query string:
(* = search* cdw || kMDItemTextContent = search* cdw)
EXAMPLES
The following examples are shown as given to the shell.
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "image":
mdfind image
This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAuthor metadata attribute:
mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'"
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "skateboard". The find continues to run after gathering the
initial results, providing a count of the number of files that match the query.
mdfind -live skateboard
To get a list of the available attributes for use in constructing queries, see mdimport(1), particularly the -X switch.
SEE ALSO mdimport(1), mdls(1), mdutil(1), xargs(1)Mac OS X June 10, 2004 Mac OS X
04-14-2011
I think you missed my point -- xargs would know the maximum size of args for the system already and split accordingly. 