Do any of the 350,000 files you're moving have names that contain any space, tab, or newline characters?
Hi Don,
I am on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. The files do not contain any special characters except _
Actually the format is something like
<xyz>_n1_n2_n3.pbx
where <xyz> is a prefix containing only alphabets [a-z A-Z]
n1 is a number less than 10
n2 is a number less than 1000
n3 is a number less than 10000
pbx is the extension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Aren't 350 000 files too many arguments for for i in *?
Safer and faster is
Thanks.. Although I did not get an error for too many files with for I in *, find seems faster and as you mentioned safer if the number of files increase.
Hi,
I want to write a script that deletes all folders and keep the last 10 recent folders.
I know the following:
ls -ltr will sort the folders from old to recent.
ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' will list the folder names (with a blank line at the beginning)
I want to get the 10th folder from... (3 Replies)
Hi, all:
I've got two folders, say, "folder1" and "folder2".
Under each, there are thousands of files.
It's quite obvious that there are some files missing in each. I just would like to find them. I believe this can be done by "diff" command.
However, if I change the above question a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a sub directory with a number of files and folders. What i want is a subdirectory with just folders and not files for cleanliness sake. So I want to move the files into the new folder but keep the folders in the same place. Move all files (but not folders) to new folder.
I am... (4 Replies)
I met a problem on HPUX with 64G RAM and 20 CPU.
There are 5 million files with file name from file0000001.dat to file9999999.dat, in the same directory, and with some other files with random names.
I was trying to remove all the files from file0000001.dat to file9999999.dat at the same time.... (9 Replies)
I’m new to Linux script and not sure how to filter out bad records from huge flat files (over 1.3GB each). The delimiter is a semi colon “;”
Here is the sample of 5 lines in the file:
Name1;phone1;address1;city1;state1;zipcode1
Name2;phone2;address2;city2;state2;zipcode2;comment... (7 Replies)
I have a more than 10 K files in a folder. They are accumulated in a period of more than an year (Say from 13th July 2010 to 4th June 2011). I need to perform housekeeping on this. The requirement is to create a folder like 13Jul2010,14July2010,......3June2011,4June2010 and then from the main... (2 Replies)
Hi.
I have a folder which contains my application. I then have a flexible number of folders in another directory, called “sites”. It looks like this:
-Application
-- Test.html
-- CSS
--- Style.css
-Sites
--Site1
--Site2
I want to symlink all the files in the application folder... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a Huge 7 GB file which has around 1 million records, i want to split this file into 4 files to contain around 250k messages each.
Please help me as Split command cannot work here as it might miss tags..
Format of the file is as below
<!--###### ###### START-->... (6 Replies)
I recently bought Synology server and realised it can run scripts. I would need fairly simple script which moves all files and folders from ARCHIVE folder to WORKING folder. I would also need to maintain folder structure as each of the folders may contain subfolders. How would I go about it as I am... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
root-tail
ROOTTAIL(1) General Commands Manual ROOTTAIL(1)NAME
root-tail - print text directly to X11 root window
SYNOPSIS
root-tail [-g|--geometry GEOMETRY] [-fn|--font FONTSPEC] [--color color] [--reload SEC COMMAND] [--shade] [--outline] [--minspace]
[--noflicker] [-f|--fork] [--reverse] [--whole] [--partial] [--update] [--cont STRING] [--wordwrap] [--justify] [--noinitial] [--frame]
[-id ID] [-i|--interval SECONDS] [-V] file1[,color[,desc]] [file2[,color[,desc]]]
DESCRIPTION
Displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window, i.e. it is kind of tail -f for multiple files using your desktop background as out-
put window.
All non-option arguments on the command line are files to be logged. A null desc (example: "/var/log/messages,red,") will prevent the
printing of a description and the []'s.
General Options
--color COLOR
Use COLOR as default.
--font | -fn FONTSPEC
Use font FONTSPEC. This can be either a fixed width font like -fn fixed or any font using -fn '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' with
the appropriate fields filled out (see xfontsel). Specifying a different FONTSPEC before each filename will cause each file to be
displayed in a different font.
-f | --fork
Forks to the background.
--reverse
Display the files in reverse order, with the newest lines at the top.
--whole
Only display whole lines. If the last line of a file doesn't yet end with a newline character then wait until it does before dis-
playing it. This is the default if more than one file is being displayed.
--partial
This is the opposite of the --whole option (see above). It displays lines even if they don't yet have a newline at the end. This is
the default if only one file is being displayed.
--update
Update partial lines 'in place' if they are still on the screen when they are updated in their files. Using --update automatically
turns on --partial.
--cont STRING
When partial lines are broken into two lines in the display, prefix the 2nd line with STRING. Defaults to "|| ". Specify the
"--whole" argument to ensure partial lines are never displayed, or specify "--update" to attempt to "repair" broken lines in-place.
--cont-color COLOR
Use COLOR when displaying the continuation string (as optionally specified with the --cont option above).
--wordwrap
The default behaviour is to fit as much as possible onto each line of output, even if this means splitting a word between one line
and the next. The --wordwrap argument splits lines at spaces if possible.
--justify
After wrapping long lines, attempt to justify the text to produce a smooth right-hand margin. Implies --wordwrap.
--reload SEC COMMAND
Re-display the file(s) and run COMMAND every SEC seconds. The default is to never re-display the file(s).
--shade
Add black shading to the font.
--outline
Add a black outline to the font (making redraws quite a bit slower).
--minspace
Use minimum linespace even when using shading or outlining. This might result in leftover pixels (dependign on font and logfile con-
tent).
--noflicker
Use slower but flicker-free update.
--noinitial
Don't display the end of the file(s) initially.
-id ID Use the given window ID for output instead of the root window.
-i | --interval SECONDS
Use the specified sleeping interval between checks instead of the default 2.4 seconds. Fractional values are OK.
-V Print version information.
--frame
Draw a frame around the selected area. This is useful when trying to find the perfect geometry.
EXAMPLE
root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 -font 10x20 /var/log/messages,green -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
BUGS
Some desktop environments open a virtual root window and make it difficult to share it. If you cannot see anything after starting root-
tail, try to find a setting "allow programs on desktop" or similar, or manually specify a window id.
Should you happen to find any bugs please fix them and send me a diff.
NOTE: This program was modified by Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>, who couldn't reach the original author. Please direct bug-reports etc. to
pcg@goof.com.
http://root-tail.plan9.de/
4.2 Berkeley Distribution 2004-03-27 ROOTTAIL(1)