I am writing a script that will identify the oldest file in a directory. Here's the syntax:
#!/bin/ksh
cd directory
chmod 777 *
ls -r -1t > file1
sed -n -e "1P" < file1 > file2
So my problem is, now I have file2, which contains the name of the oldest file in the directory. How do I use,... (1 Reply)
This script searches for core files and if it finds one, it emails me to let me know.I DONT want it to email me if it doesn't find one but I can't figure out what I need to change or add. Any thoughts? Script below:
/bin/find / -name core -type f -ls -exec file {} \;|/usr/bin/mailx -s... (1 Reply)
Hello
I am working on cleaning up permissions on Oracle mountpoints and datafiles in unix. I am looking for a script or a scripting idea to 1st.
1. grep for owner oracle
2. ensure its a directory owned for oracle
3. chmod 750 on the oracle owned directory.
4. grep for oracle files, etc... (3 Replies)
I'm new to shell scripting and am having a problem trying to do something in C shell. I want to write a script that will input something instead of a user doing it. For example, using the command 'write' the user is supposed to type something to be sent to another user. I want a script to be able... (3 Replies)
I am writing a backup script for AIX 5 and running into a problem where the output isn't being shown in the output log that is being created. Any ideas on how this would be corrected? I have included the script below. The only thing showing up in the file is listed below. I was hoping to capture... (2 Replies)
I'm writing a small script that will run an executable program (sort of like TOP). To exit the executable, you have to enter control C (^c). I'm trying to use a redirect input file to send the ^c but I'm not having any luck. My short script looks like this - /mydirectory/abc.script < abc.in >... (1 Reply)
Folks;
I'm writing a shell script to extract some fields out of a log file & it will run periodically, how can i make it runs starting from where it left of. for example;
if the script will do the extract every 2 days, let's say the first run will extract fields until July 25, 2007 @ 11:15:22... (1 Reply)
folks;
I have a script to remove any files that older than 14 days then move any files that younger than 7 days to another directory. but for some reason it doesn't move the files, when i do it manually it works but not through the script. i tried 2 different ways in writing the move part but it... (6 Replies)
Preview of command prompt
f ---> to start ferret
q----> to stop ferret
asp@nex:~$ f
NOAA/PMEL TMAP
FERRET v6.82
Linux 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5PAE 32-bit - 08/03/12
3-Dec-12 16:44
yes? go my.jnl
yes?column=4/skip=1/type=num,text ............filename.txt
---... (4 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to write a small script which takes one by one file name from a txt file and do a 'll' and need to check if equal to the given month, otherwise it should return back the file name.
Note: the file name contains parameter.
My code is given below: It is not working .. giving error... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravindra Swan
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
tail
tail(1)tail(1)NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/tail [ +-s number [lbcr]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcr] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [ +- number [lbcf]] [file]
/usr/bin/tail [-lbcf] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [-f | -r] [-c number | -n number] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [ +- number [l | b | c] [f]] [file]
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail [ +- number [l] [f | r] ] [file]
The tail utility copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place. If no file is named, the standard input is
used.
Copying begins at a point in the file indicated by the -cnumber, -nnumber, or +-number options (if +number is specified, begins at distance
number from the beginning; if -number is specified, from the end of the input; if number is NULL, the value 10 is assumed). number is
counted in units of lines or byte according to the -c or -n options, or lines, blocks, or bytes, according to the appended option l, b,
or c. When no units are specified, counting is by lines.
The following options are supported for both /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail. The -r and -f options are mutually exclusive. If both
are specified on the command line, the -f option is ignored.
-b Units of blocks.
-c Units of bytes.
-f Follow. If the input-file is not a pipe, the program does not terminate after the line of the input-file has been copied, but
enters an endless loop, wherein it sleeps for a second and then attempts to read and copy further records from the input-file.
Thus it can be used to monitor the growth of a file that is being written by some other process.
-l Units of lines.
-r Reverse. Copies lines from the specified starting point in the file in reverse order. The default for r is to print the entire
file in reverse order.
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
The following options are supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/tail only:
-c number The number option-argument must be a decimal integer whose sign affects the location in the file, measured in bytes, to
begin the copying:
+ Copying starts relative to the beginning of the file.
- Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
none Copying starts relative to the end of the file.
The origin for counting is 1; that is, -c+1 represents the first byte of the file, -c-1 the last.
-n number Equivalent to -cnumber, except the starting location in the file is measured in lines instead of bytes. The origin for
counting is 1. That is, -n+1 represents the first line of the file, -n-1 the last.
The following operand is supported:
file A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of tail when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
Example 1: Using the tail Command
The following command prints the last ten lines of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is
initiated and killed.
example% tail -f fred
The next command prints the last 15 bytes of the file fred, followed by any lines that are appended to fred between the time tail is initi-
ated and killed:
example% tail -15cf fred
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tail: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
cat(1), head(1), more(1), pg(1), dd(1M), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)
Piped tails relative to the end of the file are stored in a buffer, and thus are limited in length. Various kinds of anomalous behavior can
happen with character special files.
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