Note: In standard form, find in combination with pipe and xargs will not work with filenames with spaces...
A loop will, but then a while read loop should be used instead of a for loop and the file references should have double quotes around them, for example..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-22-2012 at 06:43 AM..
Hi
I am a shell-script newbie and am looking to synchronize certain files in two directory structures.
Both these directory-trees are in CVS and so I dont want the CVS directory to be copied over.
I want only .sh and .pl files in each subdirectory under these directory trees to be... (3 Replies)
I have to write a shell script which can delete all the files and directories recursively inside the specified directory but should not delete the specified directory.
Please some body help me in writing the script. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to concatenate data files with a .mp extension that are stored in directories by year. I want to keep the same filename as an output for example:
for the file name p030.mp, which resides in the following subdirectories:
/2000/p030.mp
/2001/p030.mp
/2002/p030.mp
I want to:... (4 Replies)
I have a script which generates recursively some files in folders for a given root folder.
I have checks for permissions and it works for all folders except one(i have 777 permission on it). When i try calling the script in problematic folder(problematic folder being root folder), script works as... (2 Replies)
Display the number of files in a directory and recursively in each subdirectory
To look something like below, for example
/var 35
/var/tmp 56
/var/adm 46Any ideas how can we do this?
Got a sun cluser global mount point which takes ages to mount everytime, need to understand... (5 Replies)
I have a directory that is restricted and I cannot just copy the files need, but I can cat them and redirect them to a new directory. The files all have the date listed in them. If I perform a long listing and grep for the date (150620) I can redirect that output to a text file. Now I need to... (5 Replies)
This should recursively walk through all dirictories and
search for a specified string in all present files, if found
output manicured content (eg some regex) with CAT into
a specified directory (eg /tmp/)
one by one, keeping the original names
This is what I have so far, which seems to... (1 Reply)
I love the -newerct flag for the Cygwin find command on windows.
Can I use "/usr/bin/find . -newerct '3 hours ago'" to conditionally copy a directory tree so that only the files in the directory tree that are younger than 3 hours are copied to my destination directory such that the directory... (4 Replies)
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)
I need to copy a complete directory structure into a new location. But I want to have all files copied into one directory and leave out the directory structure. So all files must be placed in one directory. (4 Replies)
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gnomevfs-cat
gnomevfs-cat(1) User Commands gnomevfs-cat(1)NAME
gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system
SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-cat URI
DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server
example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com
Example 2: Cat a Local File
example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-cat(1)