Some simple questions from a simple man.
If i wanted to count the number of files contained within a directory, say /tmp would ls -l /tmp ¦ wc -l suffice and will it be accurate?
second one: How would i check the number of files with a certain string in the filename, in the same directory.
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Hi,
I am trying out different scripts in PERL. I want to take a line/string as an input from the user and count the number of occurrances of all the alphabets (a..z) in the string. I tried doingit like this :
#! /opt/exp/bin/perl
print "Enter a string or line : ";
$string = <STDIN>;
chop... (5 Replies)
hi all,
i'm trying to pass a count of files to a variable thru these set of codes:
sh_count=$(ls -1 fnd_upload_LV*.* |wc -l)
problem is if no files matches that, it will give an error "ls: fnd_upload_LV*.*: No such file or directory".
how do i avoid having the shell script show that... (2 Replies)
Hello, I'm writing a script in sh in which the first command line argument is a directory. from that, i'm suppose to count the number of readable, writable, and executable items in the directory. I know using $1 represents the directory, and ls would display all the items in the directory, and that... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have written a script on this but it does not do the requisite job. My requirement is this:
1. I have two kinds of files each with different extensions. One set of files are *.dat (6000 unique DAT files all in one directory) and another set *.dic files (6000 unique DIC files in... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Need some help counting files... :)
I'm trying to count the number of files in a given directory (and subdirectories) which reportedly contains "thousands" of files.
I'm using this:
ls -R | wc -l
However it's been an hour and looks like it's still running; there is no output... (18 Replies)
Help Needed !
Can we count number of folders of specific date in a directory, even if directory has folders of different dates.
Please reply as soon as possible. (1 Reply)
So I have a loop that stated if a directory exists or not. If it does it prints the number of files within that directory. I use this code...
result=`(ls -l . | egrep -c '^-')`
However, no matter which directory I input, it outputs the number "2"
What is wrong here? (4 Replies)
I need to figure out how many times a location (columns 1 and 2) is present within a group of files. I figured using a combination of 'while read' and 'grep' I could count the number of instances but its not working for me.
cat file.txt | while read line
do
grep $line *08-new.txt | wc -l... (6 Replies)
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strings
STRINGS(1) BSD General Commands Manual STRINGS(1)NAME
strings -- print the strings of printable characters in files
SYNOPSIS
strings [-a | --all] [-e encoding | --encoding=encoding] [-f | --print-file-name] [-h | --help] [-n number | --bytes=number | -number] [-o]
[-t radix | --radix=radix] [-v | --version] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
For each file specified, the strings utility prints contiguous sequences of printable characters that are at least n characters long and are
followed by an unprintable character. The default value of n is 4. By default, the strings utility only scans the initialized and loaded
sections of ELF objects; for other file types, the entire file is scanned. The strings utility is mainly used for determining the contents
of non-text files.
If no file name is specified as an argument, standard input is read.
The following options are available:
-a | --all
For ELF objects, scan the entire file for printable strings.
-e encoding | --encoding=encoding
Select the character encoding to be used while searching for strings. Valid values for argument encoding are:
s for single 7-bit-byte characters (ASCII, ISO 8859).
S for single 8-bit-byte characters.
l for 16-bit little-endian.
b for 16-bit big-endian.
L for 32-bit little-endian.
B for 32-bit big-endian.
The default is to assume that characters are encoded using a single 7-bit byte.
-f | --print-file-name
Print the name of the file before each string.
-h | --help
Print a usage summary and exit.
-n number | --bytes=number | -number
Print the contiguous character sequence of at least number characters long, instead of the default of 4 characters.
-o Equivalent to specifying -t o.
-t radix | --radix=radix
Print the offset from the start of the file before each string using the specified radix. Valid values for argument radix are:
d for decimal
o for octal
x for hexadecimal
-v | --version
Display a version identifier and exit.
EXIT STATUS
The strings utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
To display strings in /bin/ls use:
$ strings /bin/ls
To display strings in all sections of /bin/ln use:
$ strings -a /bin/ln
To display strings in all sections of /bin/cat prefixed with the filename and the offset within the file use:
$ strings -a -f -t x /bin/cat
SEE ALSO ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ranlib, readelf(1), size(1)HISTORY
The first FreeBSD strings utility appeared in FreeBSD v3. It was later discontinued in FreeBSD v5, when i386-only a.out format was dropped in
favor of ELF.
AUTHORS
The strings utility was re-written by S.Sam Arun Raj <samarunraj@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by S.Sam Arun Raj
<samarunraj@gmail.com>.
BSD December 19, 2011 BSD