1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey guys, I'm trying to call and modify multiple files inside the for loop, i can't get it to work... ------------------------ AFILE=/dir/a_file.txt BFILE=/dir/b_file.txt CFILE=/dir/c_file.txt ADESTFILE=/dir/a_dest_file.txt BDESTFILE=/dir/b_dest_file.txt... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a huge collection of HTML files. They have their own file names with htmlextension. I want to rename each of these files with continuous numbers starting from 1.html till the last count of files. Simply it means that if there are three files like this abc.html cdfhg.html rmbd.htmlthen... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello again, A little while back I got help with creating a command to search all directories and sub directories for files from daystart of day x. I'm wondering if there is a command that I've overlooked that may be able to search for / write folder names to an output file which ideally... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have an input file with contents like : 1LMXTJJD0W28TX2 1LS1XJGDEVWAC5T 1LK81JVDE2HRNDG 1LMXTJJD0W28TX2 1LS1XJGDEVWAC5T 1LK81JVDE2HRNDG 1LMXTJJD0W28TX2 I need to read each field from the file pass it to a query: select count(*) from usage_error where usage_id='$field... (17 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I'm new to the forums and putting my foot in the door with SED and AWK. I was wondering if someone could help me as I think I'm making this harder than it needs to be... I have a list of folders named as urls, inside these are log files and possibly a 'status' file. I'm trying to get... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script for if characters from positions 7-15 are matching with characters from position 211-219 then replace all char from 211-219 with 9 space. Total length of record is 420. Here is the specification of the data in file. Position Field Data Type... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to process 4 files having name pattern as followis:- 1) Each file starts with = ABCJmdmfbsjop letters + 7 Digit Number _mm-dd-yyyy-hh-mm-ss-3 Digit Number.data where ABCJmdmfbsjop :- is alphabet. Each file starts with this ABCJmdmfbsjop alphabet. 7 Digit Number :- Numeric 7 digits. __:-... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i have a requirement to delete all the files from all the directories except some specific directories like archive and log. for example: there are following directories such as A B C D Archive E Log F which contains some sub directories and files. The requirement is to delete all the... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, So i know we use cp -r as a basic to copy folders/files. I would like this BUT i would like to show the output of the files being copied. With the amazing knowledge i have i have gone as far as this: 1) find source/* -exec cp -r {} target/ \; 2) for ObjectToBeCopied in `find... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to uncompress sevral tar.gz files that are located insides sevral folders using a shell script. Folder tree looks like this : /folder/001 /folder/002 /folder/003 Inside each folder dossier (001,002,003) we can find 1 or several tar.gz files. I've scripted something... (9 Replies)