Could you please give some info about using the command with $ and `` as i used `` in same command it took long time so cancelled, when i use $() it worked quickly and got the answer.
Thanks
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Again, there is problem in writing all these file names into one text file. It is giving me the same problem(arg list too long).
Alos please advise how do we write all these file name into one file which will be readable by While in script for processing each file.
Thanks
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I have done this acheived it but still there is one problem while writing filenames in text file. File names are written as
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Hello
I am having a requirement like if there is no file in the directory then i need a message to pop on after the execution of the script.
My script basically does for File in `ls -t $DIRECTORY | tail -1`;
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i want to check if the file is in the directory or not, and also it should be handle error conditions, like missing files and report the error and exit.
i did something like this:
file ="hello"
if !test -e "${file}"
then echo "No such files exist!"
exit 1
else
do something.......
fi
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to unix scripting and am jus getting to learn about it..
I need to know on how to check for the existence of a number of files in a path..i.e the files are ftp'ed from several other servers, should check if all the files have arrived, if not wait till they arrive..can i use a flag... (5 Replies)
I need to check for the existence of a file *.log in a specific directory using a perl script.
Presently am not in that particular directory.
So i am using chdir ("/path/to/my/file)
And then i am using the -e in an if statement to check if it exists.
if (-e $File) {......}
$File contains the... (1 Reply)
Hi I am having a problem to verify existence of files. I need to know whether or not files in a folder that begins with a name.
For example all files that start with The_File_ *.
I was doing it this way, but gives me error.
if text -f /work/The_File_*
then
...
else
..
fi (5 Replies)
hi
i wanted to check if the file exist or not(multiple files)
DIRE=/home/V478
if ;
then
echo "file present"
else
echo "file not present"
fi
But i am getting the error as
: [: unexpected operator/operand (3 Replies)
Hello Folks,
On Below Script, I want to apply condition.
Condition that it check the directory for files if not found keep checking.
Once directory have files and founded do the calculation and finish the code.
Script to check the files existence inside a directory, If not then keep... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: sadique.manzar
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truncate
TRUNCATE(1) User Commands TRUNCATE(1)NAME
truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specifed size
SYNOPSIS
truncate OPTION... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size
A FILE argument that does not exist is created.
If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole)
reads as zero bytes.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-o, --io-blocks
Treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes
-r, --reference=FILE
use this FILE's size
-s, --size=SIZE
use this SIZE
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE is a number which may be followed by one of the following suffixes: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P,
E, Z, Y.
SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: `+' extend by, `-' reduce by, `<' at most, `>' at least, `/' round
down to multiple of, `%' round up to multiple of.
Note that the -r and -s options are mutually exclusive.
AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady.
REPORTING BUGS
Report truncate bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO dd(1), truncate(2), ftruncate(2)
The full documentation for truncate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and truncate programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'truncate invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 TRUNCATE(1)