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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting deletion of multiple occurring files Post 302718563 by Don Cragun on Friday 19th of October 2012 09:11:52 PM
Old 10-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by emily
Hi all,
In the given file, what I need to do is to select double (or triple) occurring files and delete the one having smaller file size. And would like to keep the one with the big file size.

Code:
518t-rw-r--r-- 1 emily us_cms 101348458 Oct  8 16:43 vgtree_518_0_LHB.root
518t-rw-r--r-- 1 emily us_cms 101348458 Oct  8 17:04 vgtree_518_0_YTs.root
518t-rw-r--r-- 1 emily us_cms 101348200 Oct  8 17:04 vgtree_518_0_YTg.root
519t-rw-r--r-- 1 emily us_cms 101348900 Oct  8 17:04 vgtree_519_0_YTs.root
520t-rw-r--r-- 1 emily us_cms 101788200 Oct  8 17:04 vgtree_520_0_YTs.root

Here in the code,
1.) I would like to delete the following files
vgtree_518_0_YTs.root
vgtree_518_0_YTg.root

And would like to keep all other files as such. Cos there is no double occurance for them.

thanks in advance
emily.
I don't understand what constitutes multiple occurrences of a file. When I look at the data it seems that there is one file with a name that matches vgtree_*_LHB.root, one file with a name that matches vgtree_*_YTg.root, and three files with a name that matches
vgtree_*_YTs.root. If that is the case, why do you want to delete vgtree_518_0_YTg.root and why don't you want to delete vgtree_519_0_YTs.root?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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