1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'd like to ls a group of files in date order but I'm not sure what the commands would be. Can anyone help with this? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have three different linux command scripts that I run for 20+ files in one directory. it goes like this FIRST SCRIPT: grep 'something' -w file > newfile1 . . . grep 'something -w file > newfile20 then I take all these 'newfileN' and run this: awk 'BEGIN {... (20 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a set of input data that I split into batches using the following command: split -l 4000000 MyInput.in Split_a Once I get the split files, I run a certain command on the split files that spews an output. So far I have been doing it without a for loop. How can I translate the... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have many files in a folder (like 200) and I want to run a Perl script through all of them. One way would be to do it one by one (which will take forever). But I am sure there is a faster way of doing it. So inside the folder i have files named in no particular way eg. YUI456... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a script that performs a process on a file. I want to know how to include a function to run a batch of files? Here is my script #!/bin/bash #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #This... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to extract data from multiple output files. I am able to extract the data from a single output file by using the following awk commands: awk '/ test-file*/{print;m=0}' out1.log > out1a.txt awk '/ test-string/{m=1;c=0}m&&++c==3{print $2 " " $3 " " $4 ;m=0}' out1.log >... (12 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm trying to zip up the first half year's application logs into one zip file. The logs are in the format of log.2011-01-01 to log.2011-06-30. I tried to use this command at ksh: zip logs.jan-jun2011.zip *2011-01* *2011-02* *2011-03* *2011-04* *2011-05* *2011-06* It works. However, I... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have cygwin installed on windows server and when I do echo $SHELL the output is /bin/bash I have created a ssh tunnel from this windows server through cygwin to ibm -i series which is running Q-shell. I am trying to invoke a utility wsadmin (used for scripting) on ibm-i from the... (12 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I would like to create symbolic links for a series of files in my cwd (after confirming that the links don't already exist). The above files all have a similar prefix, but different extensions. I created a shell script like shown below and I get an error message "No such file or... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello everyone, I'm am a newbie to coding so I am reaching out in hopes that I can get some help from this forum. I am trying to run the script below from a single directory, however the directory has many subfolders. In each of those subfolders is a file, uniquely named to that specific... (3 Replies)