hi all,
i'm looking for a bash or tcsh script that will clone an empty dir tree 'over' another tree ...
specifically, i'd like to:
(1) specify a src directory
(2) list the directory tree/hiearchy beneath that src dir, w/o files -- just the dirs
(3) clone that same, empty dir hierarchy to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
What will be the best way to do the follwing:
i have a file calld dir.list
/cav
/cav/brif
/usr/main
/cat
i want to run a script that will take each of the item in the file and create a new dir in a location that i'll choose
it nee to do mkdir cav
mkdir cav
cd cav
mkdir brif... (8 Replies)
hi
i have a script
compareFiles()
{
find /tmp/Satya -type f | \
while read filename1
do
echo "----------------------------------------$filename1"
find /tmp/Satya -type f | \
while read filename2
do
if diff $filename1 $filename2
then
echo "Both files... (3 Replies)
Hi, I am fairly new to writing scripts.
I am trying to write a script that moves either One or All of the files from one directory to another.
I know how to make the actual command to do it, but i don't quite know how to add operators to it, ie -i or -a.
I want -i to move one file from... (4 Replies)
HI all, I got a CPIO archive that contains a unix filesystem that I try to extract, but it extract to the root dir / unstead of current dir, and happily it detects my file are newer otherwise it would have overwrited my system's file!
I tried all these commands
cpio -i --make-directories <... (2 Replies)
Hey all,
i want to copy only the file names from an ftp server (directory and all sub directory) to a text file in another server (non ftp), i.e. i want to recursively move through directories and copy only the names to a text file.
any help is appreciated...thank you in advance (1 Reply)
I am very new to unix as well as shell scripting.
I have to write a script for the following requirement. In have to list all the files in directory and its sub directories along with file path and size of the file
Please help me in this regard and many thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
Dear Members,
I have a list of xml files like
abc.xml.table
prq.xml.table
...
..
.
in a txt file.
Now I have to search the file(s) in all directories and sub-directories and print the full path of file in a output txt file.
Please help me with the script or command to do so.
... (11 Replies)
I have searched this quite a long time but couldn't find the right method for me to use. I need to assign read write permission to the user for specific directories and it's sub directories and files. I do not want to use ACL. I do not want to assign user the same group of that directories too.... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
dirname
dirname(3C) Standard C Library Functions dirname(3C)NAME
dirname - report the parent directory name of a file path name
SYNOPSIS
#include <libgen.h>
char *dirname(char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The dirname() function takes a pointer to a character string that contains a pathname, and returns a pointer to a string that is a pathname
of the parent directory of that file. Trailing '/' characters in the path are not counted as part of the path.
If path does not contain a '/', then dirname() returns a pointer to the string "." . If path is a null pointer or points to an empty
string, dirname() returns a pointer to the string "." .
RETURN VALUES
The dirname() function returns a pointer to a string that is the parent directory of path. If path is a null pointer or points to an empty
string, a pointer to a string "." is returned.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Changing the Current Directory to the Parent Directory.
The following code fragment reads a pathname, changes the current working directory to the parent directory of the named file (see
chdir(2)), and opens the file.
char path[[MAXPATHLEN], *pathcopy;
int fd;
fgets(path, MAXPATHLEN, stdin);
pathcopy = strdup(path);
chdir(dirname(pathcopy));
fd = open(basename(path), O_RDONLY);
Example 2 Sample Input and Output Strings for dirname().
In the following table, the input string is the value pointed to by path, and the output string is the return value of the dirname() func-
tion.
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Input String | Output String |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"/usr/lib"" |"/usr" |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"/usr/" |"/" |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"usr" |"/" |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"/" |"/" |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|"." |"." |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|".." |"." |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
USAGE
The dirname() function modifies the string pointed to by path.
The dirname() and basename(3C) functions together yield a complete pathname. The expression dirname(path) obtains the pathname of the
directory where basename(path) is found.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO basename(1), chdir(2), basename(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 18 Mar 2002 dirname(3C)