Thanks, I will go over this and see if I can get it working. At the end of the day, I will be doing a cp of each file in the list to another directory. One of the problems I have is that I will probably want the top 20 out of 50 or so (not the top 3), so you can see why my method wasn't going to be practical.
It's not entirely clear to me what arguments 2 and 3 are. I argument 3 the number of files being processed and argument 2 the field being sorted on?
LMHmedchem
I'm sorry for not explaining it better. I thought the usage message comment was sufficient documentation along with the examples I gave. The arguments are:
A pathname of the directory containing the files to be processed.
The field to be used as your sort key.
The maximum number of files you want to list.
Your file names are of the form:
where field14 always ends with the string .out.txt. I showed you examples using fields 1, 3, and 5 as the sort key since they were the only numeric fields in the names of the files you used in your example that had values that were not a constant. The 12th field was numeric but all filenames had 4 in field12 so sorting on it didn't seem useful.
The count (3rd operand) in my examples was 3 and 5 since you used 3 in your example and you only had 5 files in your example. You can put any number you want there to specify the number of files you want listed. It is happy with 1; it is happy with 32000. Pick the number you want.
Hello all
im using allot with the method of getting file list from misc place in unix and copy them into text file
and then doing misc action on this list of files using
foreach f (`cat file_list.txt`)
do something with $f
end
can I replace this file_list.txt with some place in memory? ... (1 Reply)
I have the files logged in the file system with names in the format of : filename_ordernumber_date_time
eg:
file_1_12012007_1101.txt
file_2_12022007_1101.txt
file_1_12032007_1101.txt
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Hi,
I have list of files as following:
/home/abc/x/23344.php
/home/axx/zz/ddddd/abc/7asda/2434.php
/home/zzz/7x/y/114.php
/home/assssc/x/yasyday/23664.php
( last part in each line is <somenumber.php>
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Please see how can I do this:
File A (three columns):
X1,Y1,1.01
X2,Y2,2.02
X3,Y3,4.03
File B (three columns):
X1,Y1,1
X2,Y2,2
X3,Y3,4.0005
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Hi
i have a file which has mutiple line in it.
inside that i have a pattern similar to this
/abc/def/hij
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Hi Gurus,
I need to list only the files with out certain extension.
For eg from the following list of files:
I need to only list:
Thanks
Shash (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have a huge directory (with millions of files) and need to find out duplicates based on BOTH file name and File size.
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Core Utilization
CoreId %Usr %Sys %Total
------ ----- ----- ------
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Hi,
I have a directory with a lot of files like this:
a.bam
b.bam
c.bam
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a x
b y
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