05-16-2012
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
The script below was written to select files and convert a particular string to something other and replace that file. However, I came across some issues with filenames that contain spaces, any suggestions to get around this? Any other suggestions that may apply to this code would also be... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shakey21
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2. OS X (Apple)
ive looked and couldnt find an answer...
can someone tell me how i can replace spaces and characters with an "_" on multiple folders?
thanx muchly. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RahJiggah
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
how can find length of file names in a directory.
Examp:
I have a directory with name "d1".
directory: d1
files:
aaa.log
bbb.log
abcd.log
abcdef.log
I wold like out put like:
file name legnth
aaa.log 3
bbb.log 3
abcd.log 4
abcdef.log 5 (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: koti_rama
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script that generates a variable with the location of a file and its complete path. What i want to do is to "cd" to the directory where that file is located using the path name of the file. GIS has absolutely failed me.
For example when i run my script it generates a variable called... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Knome
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would need a command for finding first 15000 of the file names whose 25th postion is 5 in the current directory alone.
I do have this painful command
find . -name '5*' | head -15000 | cut -c3-
please refine this.
Of course the above command also searches in the sub directories... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vk39221
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to find empty files in a directory and write them into a text file. Directory will contain old files as well, i need to get the empty files for the last one hour only. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vel4ever
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
i want to display all the files which has their names in the Uppercase in a particular directory...guide.. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sheelsadan
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've got a sed shell script I've been using for quite a while to do batch find/replace operations on .xml files containing various types of text entries. This is the script I use:
#!/bin/bash
while read text_old text_new; do
sed_script+="s/$text_old/$text_new/g;"
done < trans_old_to_new... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Agreppa
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
This script writes the output files to FILES but I don't want to exclude all directories from ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV, I want to include one sub directory name process which is under ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV in the search. Right now its excluding everything from prune directories such as ABC_CHQ, LYS_ADV... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: John William
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I am having issues with the jar -tf command when I put in the shell script.
The command runs fine from the command line as shown below.
# jar -tf "./VirtualBox Dropped Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar"
But when I put in a shell script(shown below) and the... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: vinoo128
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cd(1) General Commands Manual cd(1)
NAME
cd - change working directory
SYNOPSIS
[directory]
DESCRIPTION
If directory is not specified, the value of shell parameter is used as the new working directory. If directory specifies a complete path
starting with or directory becomes the new working directory. If neither case applies, tries to find the designated directory relative to
one of the paths specified by the shell variable. has the same syntax as, and similar semantics to, the shell variable. must have execute
(search) permission in directory.
exists only as a shell built-in command because a new process is created whenever a command is executed, making useless if written and pro-
cessed as a normal system command. Moreover, different shells provide different implementations of as a built-in utility. Features of as
described here may not be supported by all the shells. Refer to individual shell manual entries for differences.
If is called in a subshell or a separate utility execution environment such as:
(which invokes on accessible directories) does not affect the current directory of the caller's environment. Another usage of as a stand-
alone command is to obtain the exit status of the command.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
Environment Variables
The following environment variables affect the execution of
The name of the home directory,
used when no directory operand is specified.
A colon-separated list of pathnames that refer to directories.
If the directory operand does not begin with a slash character, and the first component is not dot or dot-dot, searches
for directory relative to each directory named in the variable, in the order listed. The new working directory is set
to the first matching directory found. An empty string in place of a directory pathname represents the current direc-
tory. If is not set, it is treated as if it was an empty string.
EXAMPLES
Change the current working directory to the directory from any location in the file system:
Change to new current working directory residing in the current directory:
or
Change to directory residing in the current directory's parent directory:
Change to the directory whose absolute pathname is
Change to the directory relative to home directory:
RETURN VALUE
Upon completion, exits with one of the following values:
The directory was successfully changed.
An error occurred. The working directory remains unchanged.
SEE ALSO
csh(1), pwd(1), ksh(1), sh-posix(1), sh(1), chdir(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
cd(1)