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As your file names contain spaces, you will need to fiddle around with the escaped double quotes around the final {}. Remove echo as you see command fit your needs.
Howdy,
I'm trying to figure out how to move multiple files based on their creation date. If anyone can enlighten me it would be most appreciated!!
Thanks!
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Hi All,
I have a directory which has crores of files since from 2003 till now. I want to move only the 2003 files to another directory. Please help.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Dear friends..
I have the below listing of files under a directory in unix
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 263349631 Jun 1 11:18 CDLD_20110603032055.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 267918241 Jun 1 11:21 CDLD_20110603032104.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abc 257672513 Jun 3 10:41... (5 Replies)
hi
i have to move files and send an email and attached the bad files to inform the developer about that.
#!/bin/ksh
BASE_DIR=/data/SrcFiles
cd $BASE_DIR
## finding the files from work directory which are changed in 1 day
find -type f -name "*.csv" –ctime 0 > /home/mydir/flist.txt
##... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I need a script that moves files based on date to a folder. The folder should be created based on file date. Example is :
Date file name
----- --------
Oct 08 07:39 10112012_073952.xls
Oct 09 07:39 10112012_073952.xls
Oct 10 07:39 ... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have multiple files in the folder, I want to move those files into the other folder on based of name
File names:
Template_server1_01==>
Template_server1_02==>To one directory /Server1
Template_server1_03==>
Template_server2_01==>
Template_server2_02==>To one... (9 Replies)
Hi all
I am trying to loop through a directory of files using a given search pattern. some of the files will be duplicated due to the pattern, but of the duplicate files i wanted to move the older files to another location.
Is there any straightforward way of doing this ?
One of ways I... (1 Reply)
I'm wanting to write a bourne shell script that takes in two command line arguments - a directory and a file. With this I want to return a list of files within the directory that are older (based on creation date) than the given file, and print the number of files that have not been listed (they... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: britty4
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)