"*.*" is a DOS thing. Why not search for the files you want anyway instead of "all files". "-*#*" would be any name starting with - and including # in it.
Cramming everything into backticks won't do what you want. It'll just give you a big list but not do anything to the files. It'll also include directories, not just files. I don't know why you used xargs to grep.
It'd be nice to know what your shell is. Assuming you have bash or ksh.
hi guys,
Suppose you have 100 files in a folder and you want to replace all occurances of a word say "ABCD" in those files with "DCBA", how would you do
it ???
jatin (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to UNIX. I will be thankful if some one helps me.
I have to write a shell script for one of the requirement.
I have files created from Jan 2006 to March 2008.
My requirement is to write a script in such a way that
1) To find and copy(not Moving) the files created in the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory has DIR1 and the D1 directory has 200+ files.
I want change the string from "Bangalore" to "Bangaluru" in all files in the D1 directory.
Thanks (2 Replies)
I'm looking to write a ksh code with will be alble to find a word like 'toto' in all files going from my current directory.
eg.
/doc ----------->have: text.c which "toto"
/doc/usr-------->have: build.pc, help.java which "toto"
/doc/usr/cach -->have: test.sh which "toto"
/doc/build... (4 Replies)
I used the following script
cd pathname
for y in `ls *`;
do sed "s/ABCD/DCBA/g" $y > temp; mv temp $y;
done
and it worked fine for finding and replacing strings with names etc. in all files of the given path.
I'm trying to replace a string which consists of path (location of file)
... (11 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm looking to find and replace a string in all HTML files within a certain directory, including subdirectories. Normally, I would play with this a little to get it to work, but I can't mess this up, so I'm going to ask here.
Basically, I want to find "<title>" in all *.htm* files... (11 Replies)
Hi all
This is my first post. Please bear with me with all my mistakes. I started learning shell since couple of days now and this might be quite basic for all, i want to search for files in a directory containing specific string and replace it with new string. The code i wrote is quite bulky... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i need help on shell scripting.
Main intention of the script is
step 1: ssh to remote server
Step 2: cd /tmp in remote server
Step 3: in tmp i want to grep only files and directories which are in GB sizes
All the servers list file is - tmpsrv.txt
vi tmpsrv.txt
... (17 Replies)
Hi,
The requirement is below:
There are 5 files in a unix directory and i need to pick up latest file from the directory that i can do like this ls -lrt | tail -1 and this file can be processed. now the actual requirement is some times what will happen the second third...on files i.e(ls -lrt... (4 Replies)
I need help to write shell script to copy files from one server to another server.
Source Directory UAE(inside i have another folder Misc with files inside UAE folder).I have to copy this to another server UAE folder( Files should be copied to UAE folder and Misc files should be copied in target... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
find
find(1) General Commands Manual find(1)Name
find - find files
Syntax
find pathname-list expression
Description
The command recursively descends the directory hierarchy for each pathname in the pathname-list (that is, one or more pathnames) seeking
files that match a boolean expression written in the primaries given below. In the descriptions, the argument n is used as a decimal inte-
ger where +n means more than n, -n means less than n , and n means exactly n.
Options-atime n Tests true if the file has been accessed in n days.
-cpio output Writes current file on output in the format (5120-byte records) specified in the reference page. The output can be either a
file or tape device. If output is a tape device the B key must be used to read data from the tape.
-ctime n Tests true if the file has been changed in n days.
-depth Always true; causes descent of the directory hierarchy to be done so that all entries in a directory are acted on before the
directory itself (that is, postorder instead of preorder). This can be useful when is used with to transfer files that are
contained in directories without write permission.
-exec command Tests true if specified command returns a 0 on exit. The end of the command must be punctuated by an escaped semicolon. A
command argument `{}' is replaced by the current pathname.
-group gname Tests true if group ID matches specified group name.
-inum n Tests true if the file has inode number n.
-links n Tests true if the file has n links.
-mount Tests true if the current file is on the same file system as the current starting pathname.
-mtime n Tests true if the file has been modified in n days.
-name filename Tests true if the filename argument matches the current file name. Normal Shell argument syntax may be used if escaped
(watch out for `[', `?' and `*').
-newer file Tests true if the current file has been modified more recently than the argument file.
-ok command Executes specified command on standard output, then standard input is read and command executed only upon response y.
-perm onum Tests true if file has specified octal number. For further information, see If onum is prefixed by a minus sign, more flag
bits (017777) become significant and the flags are compared: (flags&onum)==onum. For further information, see
-print Prints current pathname.
-size n Tests true if the file is n blocks long (512 bytes per block).
-type c Tests true if file is c type ( c = b, block special file: c, character special file: d, directory: f, plain file: l, sym-
bolic link: p, type port: s, type socket).
-user uname Tests true if file owner is login name or numeric user ID.
The primaries may be combined using the following operators (in order of decreasing precedence):
1) A parenthesized group of primaries and operators (parentheses are special to the Shell and must be escaped).
2) The negation of a primary (`!' is the unary not operator).
3) Concatenation of primaries (the and operation is implied by the juxtaposition of two primaries).
4) Alternation of primaries (`-o' is the or operator).
Examples
To remove all files named `a.out' or `*.o' that have not been accessed for a week:
find / ( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' )
-atime +7 -exec rm {} ;
To find all files on the root file system type:
find / -mount -print
To write all the files on the root file system to tape:
find / -mount -print -cpio /dev/rmt?h
cpio -iBvt < /dev/rmt?h
To find all the mount points on the root file system type:
find / ! -mount -print
FilesSee Alsocpio(1), sh(1), test(1), cpio(5), fs(5)find(1)