When you don't quote things, they split on spaces, causing find to look for "/home/whatever/directory" "name" "with" "spaces" "in" "it" instead of "/home/whatever/directory name with spaces in it". Unless you want your variables to split/expand, you should always put them in double quotes.
Hello,
I would like to list the files from all directories that has been modified more than 1 month ago, and whose name is like '*risk*log'.
I think a script like this should work :
ls -R | find -name '*risk*.log' -mtime 30 -type f
But it tells me "no file found" though I can see some.
... (4 Replies)
I want to count how many levels there are under a directory. I repeat level.
Also how i count only all the files in a directoy ( all files of all directories of all leves down!)
and how can i count only all the directories under a directory (including subdirectories, all levels down)
... (2 Replies)
Hi All I am writting a script that does a comparison between files in 2 diffectent directories.
To do this I need a command that will list out only the files in a give directory and omit any sub dorectories with that directory. But I am unable to find it.
Please Help.
I tried
ls... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am looking for the correct syntax to find all files in the current directory without listing sub-directoris. I was using the following command, but it still returns subdirectoris and files inside them:
$ ls -laR | grep -v ^./
Any idea? Thanks
PS I am in ksh88 (4 Replies)
Hi,
Please help me, how to get all the direcotries, its sub directories and its sub directories recursively, need to exclude all the files in the process.
I wanted to disply using a unix command all the directories recursively excluding files.
I tried 'ls -FR' but that display files as... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I try to list all files in a folder, including all the subdirs (and their subdirs) and all files contained in each of these folders. I then print it to a simple txt file.
I use ls -R -1 >test.txt
This sort of does what I need, yet, the result is something like:
It reasonably comes... (53 Replies)
Hello, can you please help me writing a command that would output the biggest files on my system from biggest to smallest? I want this to print only the files, not the directories.
I have tried
du -a ~ | sort -nr | head -10
However, this also prints out all the directories - which I do... (8 Replies)
Can anyone come up with a unix command that lists
all the files, directories and sub-directories in the current directory
except a folder called log.?
Thank you in advance. (7 Replies)
First I'm new to Linux and have used the find command pretty often but this is where I've hit a snag. I have a file that contains 3500 files that I want to find and then eventually copy to my own directory (these files are all on a shared directory at work atm).
Our work computer are huge and... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone
My issue is this, I need to list all the sub directories in a directory that contains files that have the extension *.log, *.dat and *.out . After reviewing the output i need to delete those directories i do not need. I am running Solaris 10 in a bash shell. I have a script that I... (2 Replies)
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)