I am trying to find socail security numbers in files in (and under) a specific directory and output a list of the files where they are found... the format would be with no dashes just 9 numeric characters in a row.
I have tried this:
find /DirToLookIn -exec grep '\{9\}' /dev/null {} \; >>... (1 Reply)
I have a directory (and many sub dirs beneath) on AIX system, containing thousands of file. I'm looking to get a list of all directory containing "*.pdf" file.
I know basic syntax of find command, but it gives me list of all pdf files, which numbers in thousands. All I need to know is, which... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to go through all the files on my system and build a list/output file with the paths of all files where the first two characters within the file match an expression.
I know I can use something like
find . | xargs cut -b1-2
or
find . -exec cut -b1-2 {} \;
to get the characters... (3 Replies)
I will be very grateful if someone can help me with bash shell script that does the following:
I have a list of filenames:
A01_155716
A05_155780
A07_155812
A09_155844
A11_155876
that are kept in different sub directories within my current directory. I want to find these files and copy... (3 Replies)
counter=0;
while read line;
do ] && let counter=counter+1; done < input_file.txt
echo $counter
The above code is reading a file line by line and checking whether the filenames mentioned in the file exist or not .
At present the o/p is value of counter
I want to echo out the name of... (5 Replies)
hi,
i want to list the files from the below find commands output.
find ./* -name "*.txt" -type f -mtime +10
will give the output like
./a.txt
but i need the output in the format like (ls -lrt a.txt )
-rw-rw-rw- 1 srea nast 5 May 23 07:34 a.txt
i used xargs for the... (4 Replies)
I need to find a word '% Retail by State' in the folder /usr/sas/reports/RetailSalesTaxallocation.
When I tried like below,
-bash-4.1$ cd /usr/sas/reports/RetailSalesTaxallocation
-bash-4.1$ find ./ -name % Retail by State
find: paths must precede expression: Retail
Usage: find ... (10 Replies)
Helo
Is there a better way to search within a list of subfolders :
A_START_PATH="/data_1/data_2"
#
# dir2, dir3, dir6, ..... dir59 exists
#
A_LIST="$A_START_PATH/dir1 $A_START_PATH/dir4 $A_START_PATH/dir5"
find "$A_LIST" -type f -name"*.txt"
Now searching for all files in any subdirs... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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chpasswd
chpasswd(8) System Manager's Manual chpasswd(8)NAME
chpasswd - change user passwords in batch
SYNOPSIS
chpasswd [-D binddn] [-P path] [-c des|md5|blowfish | -e] [file]
DESCRIPTION
chpasswd changes passwords for user accounts in batch. It reads a list of login and password pairs from standard input or a file and uses
this information to update the passwords of this user accounts. The named account must exist and the password age will be updated. Each
input line is of the format:
user_name:password
If the hash algorithmus is not given on the commandline, the value of GROUP_CRYPT or, if not specified, CRYPT from /etc/default/passwd is
used as hash algorithmus. If not configured, the traditinal des algorithmus is used.
OPTIONS -c des|md5|blowfish
This option specifies the hash algorithmus, which should be used to encrypt the passwords.
-e The passwords are expected to be in encrypted form. Normally the passwords are expected to be cleartext.
-D, --binddn binddn
Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory. The user will be prompted for a password for simple authentica-
tion.
-P, --path path
The passwd and shadow files are located below the specified directory path. chpasswd will use this files, not /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow.
FILES
/etc/default/passwd - default values for password hash
SEE ALSO passwd(1), passwd(5), shadow(5)AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
pwdutils Feburary 2004 chpasswd(8)