If you only need the filename then there is no need to use the -l flag on ls, which also saves you have to pipe to awk.
Using backticks (`) will execute the commands between them and then substitute them with their output. So in the above the name of the most recently modified file in path will be passed as the parameter to tail.
I'm hoping one of you scripting experts can help me.
I'm trying to find out the IP Address of every printer on my HP-UX server. (There's 256 of them)
I'm trying to do it using the PERIPH= value in /etc/lp/interface/<printername>, but I'm having problems scripting it as I'm a bit of a newbie.
... (2 Replies)
I hv the below script , that is work fine on unix sytem ( ksh ) , but it is not work in my RH system ,
the script can kill the idle user who have idel for 120 minutes but exclude the user in the exception.lst the error happen when run the statemnt " (( time = $TIMEOU + 1 )) " , could suggest... (3 Replies)
hI
I m very new to unix ,...
I m facing an issue
I have to search though a list of directorys, find all .gz files which are older than 7 days and delete that ,,,
Any one knows a single command to do this ..
Thnks in advance
BInu (3 Replies)
I am trying to write a script that tells us whether the permissions for two files, whose names should be given as arguments to the script, are identical.
And if the permissions for the two files are identical, have to output the common permission field. or else output each filename, followed by... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to ask for your help. You see i created a script that runs based on user input.
Upon running i encountered an error saying
"ksh: syntax error: `else' unmatched".
I am quite new to UNIX and to scripting as well.
below is my script which created to do this:
#!... (1 Reply)
Hello guys,
I am a newbie to Shell Scripting. I have an issue. My requirement is to search a pattern in a file and then replace it with another pattern. Please note that I have thousands of files having the same pattern and I have to replace it running a script.
I have created a script as shown... (4 Replies)
I have one table contains the last field is gender and it is entered in small letter ,i would like to convert to caps after checking the field?
eg:
eno ename loc gender
1 a ch f
2 b hy M
3 c hy m
4 d ... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I would really appreciate some help into approaching this problem:
- i have a random txt file with x lines and y rows following this pattern:
ex:
ip1 | user1 | command
ip2 | user2 | command
ip3 | user3 | command
- i need to telnet/ssh into these ip's, login with... (7 Replies)
Hi
I am doing scripting using EXPECT module.
I have successfully created the code through which i can login automatically
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh 127.0.0.1
expect "abc@127.0.0.1's password:"
send "xyz\r"
now i want to create directory
#!/usr/bin/expect spawn ssh... (0 Replies)
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inotail
INOTAIL(1) Inotify enhanced tail INOTAIL(1)NAME
inotail - A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify
SYNOPSIS
inotail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify in-
frastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the
file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file
needs to be reread. Note: inotail will not work on systems running a kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it.
Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future.
OPTIONS -c N, --bytes=N
output the last N bytes. If the first character of N is a '+', begin printing with the Nth character from the start of each file.
-f, --follow
keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows
-n N, --lines=N
output the last N lines (default: 10) If the first character of N is a '+', begin printing with the Nth line from the start of each
file.
-v, --verbose
print headers with file names
-h, --help
show help and exit
-V, --version
show inotail version and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
SEE ALSO tail(1), inotify(7)
2006-08-13 INOTAIL(1)