I am familiar with using the 'date' command to get the current date but I have a situation where I need to get the previous day's date as well as the date two days prior. Theoretically I could use 'expr' to compute these values but I need it to work in instances where the previous month's dates... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm doing automation task for my team and I just started to learn unix scripting so please shed some light on how to do this:
1) I have 2 sets of datafiles - datafile A and B. These datafiles must be loaded subsequently and cannot be loaded concurrently.
2) So I loaded datafile A... (10 Replies)
Hi all. I am scripting in a POSIX shell on HPUX.
I am running a script that needs to determine the number of days in a month.
I found this on the forum and it works great:
X=`cal $(date +%m) $(date +%Y) | grep -v '' | wc -w`
The issue is that I am running the script on the 7th day of... (11 Replies)
Hi i know how to get no of files in some particular folder by following command which includes today and previous days files also
ls |wc -l
but i needed a command in which i can list previous one or two days files only. (4 Replies)
#!/bin/ksh
day=1
month=1
year=2012
if then
then
prevmonth=31
elif
then
prevmonth=30
elif
then
then prevmonth=29
elif
then prevmonth=29
else
prevmonth=28
fi (4 Replies)
Ok, the title is confusing i know, but it is a weird question.
I have a bash script running on Centos5.8 and want to find a better way to do some date manipulation. What i am trying to do is get 3 days of files (day before, that day, and day after), concatenate the three files and pass them on... (2 Replies)
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Sorry for a duplicate post, my post at the first place could not appear due to some net issue on my machine. Here is what i posted earlier:
Hi, i am using ksh in Solaris, i wanted to assign today's,... (5 Replies)
Hello Group,
We want to create a script in order to filter process in the system with more than five days (STIME) and then kill them under Solaris 10.
How can we filter these kind of process ?
ps -efa
Thanks in advance for your help (4 Replies)
Hi all,
As i am new to shell script.Please help me to write a Shell script to find out process name that are running for last 10 days.
Thank's in advance. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: manas_1988
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whereis
whereis(1) General Commands Manual whereis(1)NAME
whereis - Locates files for programs
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bms] [-u] [-BMS directory... -f] program...
The whereis command locates source, binary, and/or reference page files for the specified program program.
OPTIONS
The -b, -m, and -s options can be used in combination to restrict the search. Searches for an executable program. Searches for the refer-
ence page for a program. Searches for the sources of a program.
Use the -B, -M, and -S options to change or limit the places whereis searches. Specifies the binary directories to search. Specifies the
reference page directories to search. Specifies the source directories to search.
The other options that can be used with whereis are as follows: Terminates the last directory list and signals the start of program names.
Used with other options to indicate when there is no file for program in the default or specified directory or directories (source, binary,
or reference page).
DESCRIPTION
The whereis program locates source, binary, and reference pages for the specified programs. When looking for a match, the program names
are stripped of leading pathname components and any trailing extensions of the form (for example, s. resulting from the use of the Source
Code Control System see sccs(1), are also handled.
The default directories searched by the whereis command are as follows: /etc /etc/nls /sbin /usr/bin /usr/lbin /usr/lbin/spell /usr/ccs/lib
/usr/lib /usr/local /usr/hosts /usr/sbin
EXAMPLES
To find files matching cat in the default source, binary, and reference directories, enter: whereis cat To search for reference pages for
app13 in the directory /usr/local/man, enter: whereis -M /usr/local/man -f -f appl3 To find the programs in /usr/bin that do not have ref-
erence pages in /usr/share/man/man1 with source files in /usr/src/cmd, enter: whereis -u -M /usr/share/man/man1
-S /usr/src/cmd -f /usr/bin/* To find which files in the current directory either have no reference pages in the default reference
directories or have more than one, enter: whereis -m -u *
FILES
Default binary directories. Default binary directories. Default reference directories. Default source directories.
SEE ALSO
Commands: apropos(1), find(1), man(1), which(1), catman(8)whereis(1)