1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need some help here. We FTP out files to another server hourly. But before we can FTP to the other server. That server should send our server a "confirmation file" to tell us that they're ready to receive data. If they don't send the confirmation file, the files on our server should just stay... (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I'm trying to write a script that will delete all directories found, that are not named as a "number" (year)... here is what i mean, let's say i have within /data/exports the following directories: /data/exports/2000 /data/exports/2001 /data/exports/2002 /data/exports/daily/2000... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

*Just realized that i posted this in the wrong forum. should have been in Shell, though it is on AIX... Hi. I'm trying to write a script that will delete all directories found, that are not named as a "number" (year)... here is what i mean, let's say i have within /data/exports the... (8 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to delete all the files in my directory except the latest one. i need to do this from shell script. say i have a.txt - latest file b.txt, c.txt.. it should delete all the files except a.txt? (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

guys i need some help in writing a shell script, what i am trying to write is a shell script that can delete generated trace files my software usually generated everyday, i will give an example to make it easy to understand root@cms-db # pwd /pcard17/trace root@cms-db # ls -l HSM_VERIF.TRC*... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Under TEMP folder, it have many sub-folder, example"0015,0016,etc" I need to discovery those file which are 2 days ago in this sub-folder , and list out to investigate, at the end delete all file in those sub folder, only keep the emptu directory. Thanks (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have printed a character on the screen using a shell script. I want to move that character one space to the left. I have tried moving the cursor to the top left corner of the screen and printing a backspace, like this: tput cup 1 1; printf "\b"; The backspace supposedly deletes the... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have situation that I had originally thought would be easily remedied until I learned more about how -mtime actually works. We have one server that collects backups from a number of other servers. The backup server is limited in space (for reasons that predate my employment). The standard... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a local linux machine in which the files are dumped by a remote ubuntu server. If the process in remote server has any problem then empty files are created in local machine. Is there any way using perl script to check if the empty files are being created and delete them and then run a shell... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Mates, I would request your help in a shell script, simply I need to delete some matching db table records (rows) to ones in a given file: ------------------------------ #!/bin/bash SQL="delete from numberlist where msidn='';" MYSQL_USER="<your-user>"... (4 Replies)