1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days... The structure of the paths are like this: /home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/ /home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to search through a file to find the last one occurence of my data. File1 is like this: sososo abc123 ssssss abc456 ssssss abc345 I need to loop through to identify the last occurence of "abc". So "abc345" is the record that I need. Can someone give me some ideas? (9 Replies)

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hi, I want to search all files in the current working direcotry and to print in comma (,) seperated output. But I have two patterns to search for. Files will be in ABC20100508.DAT format. Search should happen on the format (ABC????????.DAT) along with date(20100508). I can do a ls... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm sure this is by design, but using something like for f in dir/* do echo $f done produces unexpected (to me) results if run against an empty directory. I'd have expected it to not execute the loop, but it actually calls it with f set to 'dir/*'. Now I know that I'm trying to protect... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i grep for a pattern with wildcard using grep? I want to identify all the lines that start with SAM and end in .PIPE IN.TXT SAM_HEADER.PIPE SAM_DETAIL.PIPE SAM_INVOICE.PIPE Can i do something like grep SAM*.PIPE IN.TXT (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am using sed in a for loop to replace text in a 100MB file. I have about 55,000 entries to convert in a csv file with two entries per line. The following script works to search file.txt for the first field from conversion.csv and then replace it with the second field. While it works fine,... (15 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file(report.txt) that contains : 0 1 chk_uncov_data_assert 776 chk_uncov_data_assert : assert property (chk_uncov_data) 1 0 chk_data_assert 772 chk_data_assert : assert property (chk_data) 1 0 chk_data_cover ... (8 Replies)

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Hi Experts, We are developing a script which will wait for the trigger file(with datetime in the trigger file name). But the problem is when I use 'while' loop to wait for the file, it waits for the filename with wilcard in it that is wait for 'Trigger*.done' file. :eek: Below is the script ... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I hope this is the right area. If not, Kindly let me know and I will report in the appropriate spot. I am needing to find a search pattern that will make the * act as Wildcard in the search pattern instead of being literal. The example I am using is bzgrep "to=<*@domain.com>"... (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am using a perl script to reverse and complement sequences if a string is found. The script works as expected as standalone but I would like to use it in my bash file. However, I am not getting my expected result. My test.txt file >Sample_72... (8 Replies)