1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Could someone help me please. I'm trying to write a shell script that prints the number of files I have in my home directory. Files only though, directories not included. I was thinking about using a pipe that includes wc but I don't know any commands that isolate the number of files you have in... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am using zip -m option to zip my files, but i dont want my sub directories files to be zipped (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need help in printing files from a directory. eg: a directory called /home/ABC and there are 3 files in it. I need to give printout one bye one. One more thing is I need to print date and the path on the top of each page...like... Sep 30 14:22 2008 /home/ABC Page 1 I've been... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have an application which creates some directories while running. I want to delete these directories which are 4 days older. i tried find . type d -mtime +1 -print And it is working fine.. but find . type d -mtime +4 -print is not giving any results which are 4 days... (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

how to directly open a last modified file in a directory? Please help (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi How to list all the files in a directory that are modified on a particular date? Also need to know the count,i.e number of files modified on a particular date. Thanks Ashok (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have to copy last modified Directory to another directory.How can i Do using pipe or redirect cp -R 'ls -lrt|tail -1' test is not working. please help. (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to copy last modified directory from path /users/bin to be copied to /tmp in a perl script ...somehow my script is not allowing me to do cd /users/bin. i have tried $dir = `find /users/bin -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime 0 ` cp -R $dir /tmp/new but it says missing destination... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi everyone suppose i have many directory under one directory. now i want to find out the last modified directory so i executed the command ls -ltr but it gives me the directory structure too and i don't want this so i removed 'r' also but it too gives me directory... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wan to pick the latest modified file name and redirect it to a file .. ls -tr | tail -1 >file but this is printing file ins side the filename , can anyone help me out (5 Replies)