I have a script that needs to read a file with a long list of /path/filenames - replace the name of the server in each file - and write the file to the same path with a date extension. This is the script that I have so far
I keep getting an error that the sourcestring does not exist when testing - any help would be greatly appreciated!
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hello all
i need some help because i am a unix/linux dummy...i have the following:
DIR1> has 121437 files in it with varying dates going back to early April,
a sub dir DIR1/DIR2> has 55835 files in it
I need to move all files (T*.*) out of DIR1 into DIR2 that are older than today?
Ive been... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to perform this task:
tar -cvf tar.newfile ??????.bas
I got error "arg list too long". Is ther any way around? I have about 1500 file need to be tar together.
Thanks in advance (5 Replies)
Hello guys,
I need help in globally replacing a string 'string1' with 'string2' in several files in a directory. In fact, also in all directories under it.
Can anyone help me...
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi,
I Have 10 files ,I need replace $INPUT_LOCATION with $INPUT_LOCATION_upd .using sed command do it single file .How can change all files in single shot instead of doing individual file
sed -s'/old/new/g' file1
Thanks,
Mohan (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have used a command rm *.txt in a directory which has about 2000 txt files.
but it is throwing the following error:
error: args list too long.
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Hi,
I need to replace the string 'abcd' with 'xyz' in a file sample.xml
This sample.xml is also present in the subdirectories of the current directory.
Eg,
If I am in /user/home/
the sample.xml if present in
/user/home/
/user/home/folder1/
/user/home/folder2/... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to TAR more than 50K files.
Even though I can do TAR successfully on few 100s of files, but whenever Im trying to TAR the entire 50K files, I am getting the error message :
Argument List Too Long.
Please suggest how can i avoid this error.
Im... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted a script to find sum of files for a particular date, below is my script
ls -lrt *.req | nawk '$6 == "Aug"' | nawk '$7 == "1"'| awk '{sum = sum + $5} END {print sum}'
However, i get the error below
/usr/bin/ls: arg list too long
How do i fix that.
Many thanks before. (2 Replies)
I am very new to BASH and I am having difficulties moving a long list of image files into similarly named directories. I've been trying to come with a script all night and no luck. Here is what my list of files looks like:
DSC_0059_01.jpg
DSC_0059_02.jpg
DSC_0059_03.jpg
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
mktemp
MKTEMP(1) BSD General Commands Manual MKTEMP(1)NAME
mktemp -- make temporary file name (unique)
SYNOPSIS
mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template
DESCRIPTION
The mktemp utility takes the given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a file name. This file name is unique and
suitable for use by the application. The template may be any file name with at least 6 of 'Xs' appended to it, for example /tmp/temp.XXXXXX.
The trailing 'Xs' are replaced with the current process number and/or a unique letter combination. The number of unique file names mktemp
can return depends on the number of 'Xs' provided; six 'Xs' will result in mktemp testing roughly 26 ** 6 combinations.
If mktemp can successfully generate a unique file name, the file is created with mode 0600 (unless the -u flag is given) and the filename is
printed to standard output.
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
-d Make a directory instead of a file.
-q Fail silently if an error occurs. This is useful if a script does not want error output to go to standard error.
-u Operate in ``unsafe'' mode. The temp file will be unlinked before mktemp exits. This is slightly better than mktemp(3) but still
introduces a race condition. Use of this option is not encouraged.
RETURN VALUES
The mktemp utility exits with a value of 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
EXAMPLES
The following sh(1) fragment illustrates a simple use of mktemp where the script should quit if it cannot get a safe temporary file.
TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/$0.XXXXXX` || exit 1
echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE
In this case, we want the script to catch the error itself.
TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
Note that one can also check to see that $TMPFILE is zero length instead of checking $?. This would allow the check to be done later one in
the script (since $? would get clobbered by the next shell command).
SEE ALSO mkstemp(3), mktemp(3)HISTORY
The mktemp utility appeared in OpenBSD.
BSD November, 20, 1996 BSD