1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how can I find out what is the difference between two tar.gz files without uncompressing them. thank you. (7 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, How can I work on following request? Delete all the html files older than 29th November from the path - /dding/ting/tong/unixyang/output (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hai, i am new to unix scripting & learning unix scripting and doing some assignments.... i have an assignment as follows, i want to check the size of the text file and .ext files in all directories, if any one of them is greater than 100mb , i have to display those files.. ... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a directory structure as dir and subdirectories and files under it and so on.now I need to find the files which contain the search string under every dir and subdir and replace . my search string is like searchstring=/a/b string to be replaced=/a/c/b please help. ... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey Guys.... Just need some help as I am not proficient in Unix shell script... Doubt: --------------- Suppose there will be some of the following files inside a directory called OUT ... Path: - /appdb1/product/batch/rms/OUT files inside OUT directory:- POSU_75002_20090127_20090129035442... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I have a problem that i can't seem to resolve. I need to create a script that list all the files, that are found recursively, with the same name. For example if a file exists in more than one directory with the same name it list all the files that he founds with all the info. Could someone... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i would like to ask on how to accomplish the FF: I want to execute a find command recursively and only get the filename something like i want only the last field set if is used ever the fieldvset as an redirection from the output of the find command For example: dir1/dir2/filename1... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a directory which contains multiple files with .txt extension, i want to rename all these file to .bak extension using find command, this is what i've tried, please help me to correct this : find /home/application/test -name '*.txt' -exec rename 's/txt/bak/' {} \; seems to... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm having trouble because, for some reason, cp -R missed a few files. And so did xcopy/s. Since I'm running Cygwin on Win10, I decided to see if robocopy would be more effective. The trouble is someone, maybe xcopy/s or cp -R dutifully set certain files to be read only so when I try a... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I found many scripts in the web of achieving this. But I like to use this one find /EDWH-DMT03 -xdev -size +10000 -exec ls -la {} \;|sort -n -k 5 > LARGE.rst But the problem is, why it still list out files with 89 bytes as the output? Is there anything wrong with the command? My... (7 Replies)