I was wondering what the difference was between the two commands, I understand that locate won't search for files with certain permissions set. Are there any others?
Thanks (1 Reply)
I have a file which gets appended with records daily..for eg. 1st day of the month i get 9 records ,2nd day 9 records .....till the last day in the month...the no of records may vary...i store the previous days file in a variable oldfile=PATH/previousdaysfile....i store the current days file in a... (6 Replies)
I need to find the difference between two files in UNIX. I tried diff, but couldn't get it right.
There are two files:
file1: apple
mango
strawberry
banana
grape
file2: grape
apple
banana
I need an output file like below: ... (11 Replies)
I have two files as below
File1:
a
b
c
d
File2:
a
b
When i find the difference the output would be c&d..
How can i get my requirement...pls help...
Many thanks in advance (10 Replies)
I have 2 files as follows.
file1.txt
<cell>123</cell>
<cell>345</cell>
file2.txt
<cell>123</cell>
<cell>456</cell>
out out should be
output.txt
<cell>456></cell>
How do we achieve this> The difference betwenn the two files should be wirtten to the output file..
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
The requirement is to compare two files that has single column of records each. Comparison is to happen on a whole and not line by line.
File1.txt
314589929
315611087
304924413
315989094
301171509
302984393
315609549
314593632
File2.txt
315611087
304924413
315989094 (2 Replies)
I have a file wich contains time formats and i need to get the time difference
TIME1 TIME2
==================================
20120624192555.6Z 20120624204006.5Z
which means first date 2012/6/24 19:25:55,second date 2012/6/24 20:40:06 so when i get the time... (1 Reply)
I have a file wich contains time formats and i need to get the time difference
TIME1 TIME2
=============== ===================
20120624192555.6Z 20120624204006.5Z
which means first date 2012/6/24 19:25:55,second date 2012/6/24 20:40:06 so when i get the time... (23 Replies)
Hi All,
Please find my problem below:
I have a file at two different nodes dev and test
1st find> find /u/dev/local/abc -name ab.dat
--Since this file can be in several sub directories
2nd find> find /u/test/local/abc -name ab.dat
I find my 1st find result and do compare with 2nd... (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I need to find the difference between two files ,
File_1 contained 4 columns, and File_2 contained 4 columns,
I need to find the difference using 1st column,
Or need to find the difference using 3st column, (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shenbaga.d
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)