1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

All Please help me to remove old files. For example /usr/exp/ - inside this Apr 02 - dir02 Apr 03 - dir03 Apr 04 - dir04 Apr 05 - dir05 Apr 06 - dir06 Apr 07 - dir07 Apr 03 - file03 I want to delete all the folders 2 days before created.Not the fil03 even though it is 2 days old. ... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm using the following command to zip a project file, but when it finishes, the resulting zip file contains all the directories above the file I wanted zipped, myapp.app, each one empty until you get to the actual app. zip -r myapp.app.zip ... (0 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi all: my solaris FIND does not support find myFolder -type d -empty how can i find the empty folders? thanks! (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I'm trying to remove empty sub-folders from 1 main folder using the find method, but the "- empty" parameter isn't recognized by my Unix version. Any idea how to implement such thing? Thanks. (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey there! I try to use 'find' to remove empty directories like this: find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} ';' It works just fine, but there are some directories i want to exclude. So i tried to do sth like this: find . -depth -type d -empty -exec grep -v "not this one please" -exec... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file as shown below. <crown:clinicalData> <crown:alb date="2008-07-10" lowValue="3.50" method="BCG" value="3.50"/> <crown:cre date="2008-07-10" value="9.5"></crown:cre> <crown:ktvHdAd> </crown:ktvHdAd> <crown:ktvPdAd> </crown:ktvPdAd> ... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

In current folder, there are many subfolders, subfolder's subfolders... under it. How can I find out the empty folders with no files in it. I only need the top folder list. For example, I have folders like below: a/b/c a/b/x/x.txt a/s a/s/y I need get the folder a/s, but not... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey, I need help with writing a shell script that deletes empty folders..anyone? :) Thank you! (5 Replies)

9. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi all, i am currently setting my windows XP environment to use with Services for Unix (NFS Client) to mount my unix file system as a network drive. However, though i could mount the unix file directory successful, but the folder is empty (which is not). Why is this so? i have imported my unix... (6 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have an amount of folders and I want to delete only the empty ones. But I have more than 200 empty folders, so I would preffer do not delete one by one... I know it is possible, but I don't know how. I've tried with the size, using 'du' command, and saving the result in a file. After that, I made... (3 Replies)