Hello all! I am writing a script that takes in a directory name as input and if the directory exists, it shows the files inside the directory
here is what I have so far (incomplete) (mostly like pseudocode)
disregard the xxxxx, that is personal information I have erased. What I want it to do is use grep to search the current directory for any "sub directories" and see if they exist. If they do exist then run the cd command to jump to that directory and ls to show the contents. I am having trouble incorporating it into the script. Any help is appreciated. . thank you
I just moved my mail server (qmail in maildir format) from a solaris box to a RedHat linux box. When I select some inboxes in pine, I get a directory listing of the inbox, its not automatically opening the qmail cur directory.
This doesn't happen with all, and it doesn't happen at all on... (0 Replies)
Hey guys!
I'm so glad I found this site, I've had so many questions and have been left alone for roughly a year scanning man pages but It's just not quite cutting it for some things.
So, I often like to list directories when browsing around my local machine, a friend's machine, or my web... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an user's home directory set to /home/A
And A contains the following directories B & C
Is there some way in solaris by which i can prevent the directories B and C from getting deleted by the user but the contents of the directories B & C can be deleted ?
Also i have... (2 Replies)
This should be an easy question for you gurus. :)
How can I create a regular expression to match all files in the current directory that have only one period in their file name, and also not contain the string "abc" before the period?
It would match:
foo.txt
foobar.log
It would not... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I am trying to make a cron job to delete the contents of a directory in a linux environment.The contents created before 2 days should get deleted by this job.Here is what i have written :
/usr/bin/find / -name *.log -ctime +2 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
Is it correct....If not so,please... (9 Replies)
strange :)
can you tell why?:cool:
#!/bin/bash
echo " enter your age "
read age
if ; then
echo " you do not have to pay tax "
elif ]; then
echo " you are eligible for income tax "
else
echo " you dont have to pay tax "
fi (3 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)
Hello there,
I'm using a read-while loop to preserve the word Failed within a text file. For example, if the word Failed exist twice in a single text file, my STDOUT should re-direct to a new text file and display Failed twice.
My output is attached to this thread. I would like output to... (4 Replies)
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update-fonts-dir
update-fonts-dir(8) System Manager's Manual update-fonts-dir(8)NAME
update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files
SYNOPSIS
update-fonts-dir [OPTION] directory ...
DESCRIPTION
update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by invoking mkfontdir(1x) with the appropriate arguments. It is typically
invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing fonts for the X Window System, but may be invoked
at any time to reconstruct fonts.dir files. For each directory, which is simply the last component of its path (such as '75dpi' or
'misc'), update-fonts-dir will generate either /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.dir or /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory/fonts.dir from the
fonts.scale and font files found within it.
This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory. No font package actually provides the fonts.dir file in
the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's font names with those of another.
For instance, the two packages 'xfonts-base' (real) and 'xfonts-nifty' (hypothetical) may both install fonts into the directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, and update-fonts-dir will ensure that the fonts.dir file in that directory contains information about the font
files provided by both packages.
The format of fonts.dir files is described in the mkfontdir(1x) manual page.
An example of how to use update-fonts-dir in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
OPTIONS -h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.
-7, --x11r7-layout switches the font layout to the one introduced in X11R7: fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory (default is: fonts in
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory)
OPERANDS
update-fonts-dir takes one or more X font directory names to operate on as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name
should be specified; e.g.,
update-fonts-dir 75dpi
is correct, while 'update-fonts-dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' and 'update-fonts-dir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' are not.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS
indicates the width of the terminal device in character cells. This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set,
the terminal is queried using stty(1) to determine its width. If that fails, a value of '80' is assumed.
DIAGNOSTICS
Errors
usage error: one or more font directories must be provided
update-fonts-dir was invoked without operands. Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.
usage error: unrecognized option
update-fonts-dir was invoked with an unrecognized option argument. Use only the options documented in "OPTIONS", above.
fatal error: path to X font directory must be used
A directory name was supplied that was not an X font directory name. Supply X font directory names only.
Warnings
warning: absolute path directory was provided
Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final component of the X font directory name for directory.
warning: directory does not exist or is not a directory
The supplied directory was invalid. update-fonts-dir skipped it.
EXIT STATUS
0 update-fonts-dir ran successfully.
1 update-fonts-dir experienced a fatal error; see the section on diagnostic messages above.
2 update-fonts-dir was invoked with invalid arguments.
BUGS
See the Debian Bug Tracking System <http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils>. If you wish to report a bug in update-fonts-dir, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.
AUTHOR
update-fonts-dir was written by Branden Robinson.
SEE ALSO mkfontdir(1x)Debian Project 2004-11-11 update-fonts-dir(8)