Assuming that you just want to copy files from the directory /p2/arch/log (and not from subdirectories of that directory), you could try something like the following. It is untested, but should come close to what you were trying to do:
This should work with any shell based on Bourne shell syntax (e.g., ash, bash, dash, ksh, sh,zsh, etc.), but will not work with csh and its derivatives.
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Hi,
I have a crontab that runs some shell scripts at fixed intervals. Although, one condition for a script to continue is that a previous instance of the same script should have terminated. But, inspite of the fact that the old instance has finished execution, the new instance still terminates.
... (3 Replies)
Hi All
Please see the script below
for file in ${filelist
}; do
if ]; then
if ]; then
print " $(date) STEP 6 ------- Copying $file to $destpath"
fi
if ! cp $ftppath/$file $destpath 2> /dev/null; then
writeToLog "ERROR: ${0##*/} - $upartition Could not copy file $file"
if ]; then... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I wanted to compare EDI files present in Two different Directories which can be related by the file names. While comparing the EDI files i have to skip selected segments such as "ISA" "IEA" and "GS" "GE" since this may have datetime stamp and different "Sender" "Receiver" Qual.
and... (3 Replies)
I have a directory that contains some specific files. I want to find all the files and copy them to a different directory, however the files are in /dir1/dir2/dir3/filedir/archive. In ~/filedir contains about 100 directories that contains an archive directory where the files I need are. How can I... (6 Replies)
find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print|xargs perl -i -pe 's/pattern/replaced/g'
this is simple logic to find and replace in multiple files & folders
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Zaheer (0 Replies)
Hiiii Friends
I have 2 files with huge data. I want to compare this 2 files & if they hav same set of vales in specific rows & columns i need to get that value from one file & replace it in other.
For example: I have few set data of both files here:
a.dat:
PDE-W 2009 12 16 5 29 11.11 ... (10 Replies)
I have 2 files with the same header and need to append them and put the result in a 3rd file
the 2 files has the same header and while appending i want to skip the second file header and need the result to be put in a third file
Normally, this would work
Cat file1 file2 >> file3....But how... (5 Replies)
Hi,
suppose I have the following file and certain rows have missing columns,
how do i skip these rows and create an output file which has all the columns in it
E/N Ko_exp %err Ko_calc %err diff diff- diff+ 0.95
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How do I move all folders and its contents from a directory A to another directory B, skipping all files in Directory A ?
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Ok. Got it.
mv /A/*/ /B/ (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want a simple line of code that will compress files within a directory specified (parameter) and its subdirectories and also i want to remove files which are exactly 365 days old from the sysdate after this compression.
Please help.
Thanks,
JD (8 Replies)
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)