Hi, Any command or means to delete a director which is not empty
rmdir or similar
iam using Sun Solaries 2.6 :confused:
I have many full directories with subdirectories and I can not go on emptying them all (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete an empty directory in a temp directory except "dir5" (keep everything that is not empty).
Plese advise.
Here is an example of my directory.
/dir/temp/
dir1 - delete if this is empty
dir2 - delete if this is empty
dir3 - delete if this is empty
dir4 - delete if this... (7 Replies)
I know this one was answered before in forum below -
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/58210-removing-empty-folders-using-find-command.html
But that one is closed & I have a question so here it goes.
I want to delete all 2006 files. Now if along with the files, if the... (2 Replies)
Hello:
I searched here for "vi -c" but found no hits.
How can I use vi -c to remove ALL empty lines, regardless of how many?
I tried
<code>
vi -c ":g/^$/d | wq" filename
</code>
but I have to run it several times.
This is NOT homework. :)
Thanks for your time. (3 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I am a newbie to Linux stuff. I have this kind of problem which couldn't solve alone. I have a text file with records separated by empty lines like this:
ID: 20
Name: X
Age: 19
ID: 21
Name: Z
ID: 22
Email: xxx@yahoo.com
Name: Y
Age: 19
I want to grep records that... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to remove when this condition is met: an empty and the next one
I'm using this command:
sed '/^$/N; s/&//' file
Which searches for an empty line, N attaches it to the next line, and substituing the combination with nothing.... but it is not working.
What I'm missing... (1 Reply)
Hi all !
I'm sure it is a basic question but I didn't find any threads that fit my need.
How to remove empty fields with awk?
Or in other words, how to shift all the fields after an empty field on the left?
input:
1|2||3|4|5||6
wanted:
1|2|3|4|5|6
I tried:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF;... (7 Replies)
Hi gurus,
I have a script which works fine.
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/239347-how-pass-string-into-sql-query.html
while read p
do
&& para="'${p}'" || para="${para},'${p}'"
done < filePlease use code tags as required by forum rules!
a few days... (6 Replies)
how to remove empty files tried below command its remove only zero bytes not empty file which is greater then zero byte.
for x in *
do
if
then
rm $x
fi
done (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kalia
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)