I'm confused. You cd into a directory. You check whether or not a file in that directory exists in another directory. And, if the file does not exist in both directories, you copy it to itself (not to the destination directory). Shouldn't the cp command be:
instead of:
???
Note, also, the double quotes around $fname. You should have double quotes around every expansion of $fname in your script to protect yourself from someone accidentally (or intentionally) putting space or tab characters in filenames. (This is another reason why you should just use ls instead of grabbing field #9 from ls -l output.)
Dear All,
I'm trying to write a script that searches thru a directory looking for a most recent file and then scp that file.
I have the scp working, but I don't know how to browse the directory and select the most recent file.
The file name includes a date & time stamp (e.g.... (3 Replies)
hi all,
can u please help me in finding all ksh file in directory and including all subdirectories and then copy those files into another directory.
thanks in advance
-bali (4 Replies)
Hello,
I've been searching your forum for an answer to the following question and whilst I've seen several which may help I'm afraid my inexperience with UNIX systems has got the better of me and I'm incapable of piecing your considerable expertise together.
Problem:
I have a linux box which... (5 Replies)
I want to find the most recent file containing ' NORESETLOGS"
I'm already here but, how to sort this now in a correct way ?
By the way, my version of find does not know about 'fprint'
find . -type f -exec grep -i " NORESETLOGS" {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -vi " RESETLOGS" (5 Replies)
Hi Everybody,
i want a samll help to write a script.
i had source location with :/user/bin (bin contains subdirectories with like names emails etc and had several files in each subdirectory)
and target location with :/usr/scripts (having same subdirectories names and had some files)... (1 Reply)
Ok i have three directories
Destination - /u/dir1 (has subdirectories dir2 which also has subdirectory dir3)
Source1 - /u/test/files/dir1/dir2/dir3
Source2 - /u/out/images/dir1/dir2/dir3
What i would like to do is copy everything from Source1 and Source2 into the Destination directory.... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my problem:
I try to write a script to find data in a file named "data" for exemple.
Let's say I am in the directory /x/y/z, there are several sub-directories in the "z" directory (each sub-directory has a file "data") and I am searching for the word "help".
So I use this... (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
Under my root directory there are many sub-directories which contains log file for every day of running.
How can I find , in one command only, the recent log file in each sub-directory?
For example, If I run the following:
find . -name "exp_prod_*_*_yes_*_.log" -exec ls -ltr {} \;... (12 Replies)
I love the -newerct flag for the Cygwin find command on windows.
Can I use "/usr/bin/find . -newerct '3 hours ago'" to conditionally copy a directory tree so that only the files in the directory tree that are younger than 3 hours are copied to my destination directory such that the directory... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to find the most recent files by their name from an X repertoire.
The problem is that the name of the files is of type:
POWERL10_20151203000.xml
POWERL10_20151203001.xml
POWERL10_20151202000.xml
FIXED VALUE_DATENNN.xml
NNN = Sequential number
I would need to recover the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: verita
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YAZ-URL(1) Commands YAZ-URL(1)NAME
yaz-url - YAZ URL fetch utility
SYNOPSIS
yaz-url [-H name:value] [-m method] [-O fname] [-p fname] [-u user/password] [-x proxy] [url...]
DESCRIPTION
yaz-url is utility to get web content. It is very limited in functionality compared to programs such as curl, wget.
The options must be precede the URL given on the command line to take effect.
Fetched HTTP content is written to stdout, unless option -O is given.
OPTIONS -H name:value
Specifies HTTP header content with name and value. This option can be given multiple times (for different names, of course).
-m method
Specifies the HTTP method to be used for the next URL. Default is method "GET". However, option -p sets it to "POST".
-O fname
Sets output filename for HTTP content.
-p fname
Sets a file to be POSTed in the folloing URL.
-u user/password
Specifies a user and a password to be uesd in HTTP basic authentication in the following URL fetch. The user and password must be
separated by a slash (this it is not possible to specify a user with a slash in it).
-x proxy
Specifies a proxy to be used for URL fetch.
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