xargs transforms text into arguments. These two commands are equivalent, for instance:
If you leave -exec off of find it just does its default action instead, which is, print every filename on a separate line. If you feed that into xargs commandname, it will run commandname with the filenames as arguments. If it's too many filenames to fit into one call, it will run commandname several times.
So, find without xargs:
find with xargs:
The version with -exec is preferable if you can, because spaces and quote-characters in filenames and paths can confuse xargs. -exec has no such problem, to the point that find is a useful tool for removing files which somehow ended up with humanly untypable names.
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I've made an awk command that works successfully.
However I'd like to add one character to it.
For example instead of /what_i_have_now/
I'd like to change just ONE field to the opposite with an exclamation point.
Like this: ! /what_i_have_now/
My question, where am I supposed to place... (1 Reply)
I wish to seach a Dir for a specific file, once the file is found i will perform additional logic. If the file is not found within two hours, i would like to exit.
Logically, I'm looking for the best way to approach this
Thanks for any assistance in advance.
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Hello All,
I looking for a way to verify the correction of shell script syntax.
Is there any switch like -c in perl which do this in shell ?
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Hi,
I am a unix newbie. I need to write a script to check wheteher another script is still running. If it is, then sleep for 30m and then check again if the script is running. If the script has stopped running then, I need to come out of the loop.
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hello everyone
i am beginner on shell scripting .and i am working on my project work on ad hoc network
i wrote a batch (.sh) to do a looping and execute a tcl script i wrote before in each iteration ..but i got this problem "
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Hello i have question that i want check syntax from my script shell with sh -n filename
but it's not show something even i have wrong syntax in my file. why can this happened or any other way to check it?
i use on header of file :
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#!/bin/bash
if ; then
echo "Lipsa IP";
exit;
fi
i=1
ip=$1
while ; do
if ; then
rand=`head -$i pass_file | tail -1`
user=`echo $rand | awk '{print $1}'`
pass=`echo $rand | awk '{print $2}'`
CMD=`ps -eaf | grep -c mysql`
if ; then
./mysql $ip $user $pass &
else
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
find
FIND(1) General Commands Manual FIND(1)NAME
find - find files meeting a given condition
SYNOPSIS
find directory expression
EXAMPLES
find / -name a.out -print
# Print all a.out paths
find /usr/ast ! -newer f -ok rm {} ;
# Ask before removing
find /usr -size +20 -exec mv {} /big ;
# move files > 20 blks
find / -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -exec rm {};
# 2 conds
DESCRIPTION
Find descends the file tree starting at the given directory checking each file in that directory and its subdirectories against a predi-
cate. If the predicate is true, an action is taken. The predicates may be connected by -a (Boolean and), -o (Boolean or) and ! (Boolean
negation). Each predicate is true under the conditions specified below. The integer n may also be +n to mean any value greater than n, -n
to mean any value less than n, or just n for exactly n.
-name s true if current filename is s (include shell wild cards)
-size n true if file size is n blocks
-inum n true if the current file's i-node number is n
-mtime ntrue if modification time relative to today (in days) is n
-links ntrue if the number of links to the file is n
-newer ftrue if the file is newer than f
-perm n true if the file's permission bits = n (n is in octal)
-user u true if the uid = u (a numerical value, not a login name)
-group gtrue if the gid = g (a numerical value, not a group name)
-type x where x is bcdfug (block, char, dir, regular file, setuid, setgid)
-xdev do not cross devices to search mounted file systems
Following the expression can be one of the following, telling what to do when a file is found:
-print print the file name on standard output
-exec execute a MINIX command, {} stands for the file name
-ok prompts before executing the command
SEE ALSO test(1), xargs(1).
FIND(1)