1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Made changes to a file using vi editor and saved those changes now realised that the changes are not required How can I get the previous version of the file.i.e the one which was there on which I had made changes (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

New to unix .. Is there a simple command or utility that will tell me when the last time a file was opened/used? (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi gurus, i would like to know how can i find logs files which were recently modified or updated? :confused: using this command? find . -name "*.log" -mtime ?? so what should i put for mtime? thanks. wee (9 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi Friends, In my directory i have some files. I need to find out latest modified file. Please help me. Sreenu. (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have a file that is growing and growing by the action of any process. How can I find what process is? Thank you (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, We use cron "/usr/rdl/sc/cccron" to execute our jobs. But sometimes it is being changed. but we are not sure when it is changed. how could we find when cron is modified. i checked cron by giving ls -l . but it is showing 2009 year. ls -l /usr/rdl/sc/cccron -r-xr-xr-x 1... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How to find a file modified more than once.... Thanks in advance (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi #Testing for file existence if ; then echo 'SCHOOL data is available for processing' else echo 'SCHOOL DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR PROCESSING' : i wrote a script, where it begins by checking if file exists or not. If it exists, it truncates the database... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to fetch the latest modified file from a directory using the command find . -type f -exec ls -lt \{\} \+ | head | awk '{print $9}' After the O/P, I get the below mentioned error and the command doesnt terminate at all. find: ls terminated by signal 13 find: ls terminated by... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a directory that has numerous files in it, and there is two which are named "filerec_ddmmyyHH24MMSS" by the time they are created so "filerec_010615012250" was created at 01:22:50 on 1st June 2015. I need to find the most recently created of those 2 files and get the contents of... (4 Replies)