* will match directory and file names alike, so you can handle it exactly the same way.
30,000 files may easily be too many to fit into *, however. You could use ls with a read loop instead. Just beware that variables you change inside the 'while read' loop will not be affected outside the loop, because of the pipe.
I have a TAR (compressed) file that I uncompressed using the following command
$ tar xvf uagent.tar
It created a directory structure as follows
<root>/arcagent/UAGENT/reloc/$UAGENT_HOME/
How do I access files under the $UAGENT_HOME? Every time I do change directory command, the OS... (3 Replies)
Hi All ,
I am having confusion in a shell script. Please guide me.
I need to get multiple files (number of files vary time to time, file names are separated by '|') using FTP get from the remote server.
Actually, i call the FTP function in a loop. At the last step, i need to move all the get... (3 Replies)
Sun Solaris Unix Question
Haven't been able to find any solution for this situation. Let's just say the file names listed below exist in a directory. I want the find command to find all files in this directory but at the same time I want to eliminate certain file names or files with certain... (2 Replies)
hai,
I am new to Unix, I have a requirement to display owner name , directory or sub directory name, who's owner name is not equal to "oasitqtc".
(here "oasitqtc" is the owner of the directory or sub directory.)
i have a command (below) which will display all folders and sub folders, but i... (6 Replies)
I am trying to loop through folders and extract the name of the lowest level subfolder
I was running the script below, it returns
/bb/bin/prd/newyork
/bb/bin/prd/london
/bb/bin/prd/tokyo
I really want
newyork
london
tokyo
I couldn't find a standard variable for the lowest level... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to write a loop to change the names of files in a directory. The files are called data1.txt through data1000.txt. I'd like to change their names to a1.txt through a1000.txt. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (2 Replies)
i=0
while
do
sizesfor0=`cat 16 | grep 'pickSize' -A 1 | grep '_sz' | cut -d'_' -f1`
sizesfor0=${sizesfor0//id=\"lll/:}
IFS=: array0=( $sizesfor0 )
echo ${array0}
i=$(( $i + 1 ))
done
So, right now I have two variables in the while statement above
sizesfor0 and array0
The... (1 Reply)
OS : RHEL 6.1
Shell : Bash
I have lots of files in /tmp/stage directory as show below.
Using a loop, I need to print all the filenames in this directory except those ending with a number. How can I do this ?
# pwd
/tmp/stage
#
#
# ls -l *
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 7 18:38 stmt1... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to grab a list of file names from a directory, then process those files 5 at a time. In the link below. Instead of using files I'm using the files array which contains 15 strings starting with AAA.
So I'm trying to assign $fileset 5 of the strings at a time to pass to a command. So... (4 Replies)