I think I forgot a pipe. No wonder it was puzzling you.
If that didn't answer your question you'll need to ask about something specific.
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so in my case do I have to give it as 0-9,a-z as it could be anything between 0-9 and a-z as the first letter of the folder.
I don't think so, those look like hex: binary numbers encoded as ASCII digits 0-9 and a-f.
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is there any restriction on the # of directories I can search using this wildcard?
There's no limit on find -name '*', no, because it can process them one-by-one. When you expand * inside the shell itself, it has to find all of them at once, before find is even run, potentially running out of room.
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also won't the rmdir "${DIR}" delete the full structure? I just need only till the 32 char folder deleted and the rest should be intact.
"rmdir /path/to/folder" only removes 'folder'. And it won't even do that unless it's empty. So I try to remove /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-*/bcfa0dbbcf17f28c768d1d34da6b48a4/PGP, and if that succeeds, I try to remove /Production/ST/st*/Outbound/Prod/PROD-*/bcfa0dbbcf17f28c768d1d34da6b48a4 itself.
And as I said, don't remove the echo until you're sure it does what you want.
I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days...
The structure of the paths are like this:
/home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/
/home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)
I need to find whether there is a file named vijay is there or not in folder named "opt" .I tried "ls *|grep vijay" but it showed permission problem.
so i need to use find command (6 Replies)
The following command works fine in my cshell script:
set Deliverables = `find . -name "eliverables" -print`
The following command does not work:
set LASFiles = `find . -name "*." -print`
In the first example, when tested in an if statement, the script will continue whether a... (3 Replies)
Hi i have a requirement to search for all files in a directory.
the files will start as file1_*,file2_*,file3_*
where the wild card character is a timestamp. so on a particular day i may get files like
file1_1103120042
file1_1102010345
file2_1101093423
file3_1103120042... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am looking for a command to change directory in FTP server with wildcard specified. Basically this is what i am trying.
localserver# ftp remoteserver
ftp> ls
41000_42000
42000_43000
ftp> cd 41*
550 CWD failed. '41*' : no such file or directory.
Could anyone please let me know... (6 Replies)
i have this find command on my script as:
for i in `find $vdir -name "$vfile" -mtime +$pday`
the problem with this code is that the sub-directories are included on the search. how do i restrict the search to confine only on the current directory and ignore the sub-directories. please advise.... (7 Replies)
I'm sure this is by design, but using something like
for f in dir/*
do echo $f
done
produces unexpected (to me) results if run against an empty directory. I'd have expected it to not execute the loop, but it actually calls it with f set to 'dir/*'.
Now I know that I'm trying to protect... (2 Replies)
so i have a script that i do not want copies of that script to be roaming around. i want that script to be in only one location on the filesystem, and whoever wants to use it should just link to it.
any idea on how to exit from a script if it is detected that the running version is a copy and... (5 Replies)
How can i tweak the below find command to exclude directory/s -> "/tmp/logs"
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.log*" ! -name "*.jar*" \) -printNote: -path option/argument does not work with the version of find that i have.
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v (7 Replies)
HI there,
I am trying to find and replace with wildcard with
data
chr1 69511 69511 A G 1/1:0,34:791,78,0:78:34 0/1:55,60:1130,0,1513:99:116 1/1:0,28:630,63,0:63:28 0/1:0,34:626,57,0:57:34
To this
chr1 69511 69511 A G homo hetero homo hetero
Where I find and replace 0/1 with... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: daashti
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
rmdir
RMDIR(1) FSF RMDIR(1)NAME
rmdir - remove empty directories
SYNOPSIS
rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
DESCRIPTION
Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty
ignore each failure that is solely because a directory is non-empty
-p, --parents
remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory component of that path name. E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir a/b/c
a/b a'.
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every directory processed
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for rmdir is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and rmdir programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info rmdir
should give you access to the complete manual.
rmdir (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 RMDIR(1)