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xargs is not necessarily the tool of choice for more complicated situations. Should files exist e.g. with non-alpha chars in their name, additional measures need to be taken.
Recentily i receive virus ninda and my network was files *.eml.
I find all *.eml with:
find / -name *.eml -print > virus
Virus has the path and name of the file,so, How can i delete all *.eml?
Thanks (2 Replies)
I'm reading the file name from a spreadsheet then creating a data file with several remove statements.
i.e
cd /sun/5.0/AWBE/v1.0/svr/VaultLocs/CPVaultLoc/
rm "ZXCV KTest Stat host $$ cont.xls"
cd /sun/5.0/AQE/v1.0/svr/VaultLocs/CPVaultLoc/
rm "ABC PMT OzLtr.pdf"
cd... (2 Replies)
Hi
I found the following line would concatenate all test_01 test_02 test_03 files into "bigfile".
cat test_* >> bigfile
But, what I'm looking for a way to insert each file names in order when concatenated in "bigfile".
Thank you
samky2005 (2 Replies)
Sun Solaris Unix Question
Haven't been able to find any solution for this situation. Let's just say the file names listed below exist in a directory. I want the find command to find all files in this directory but at the same time I want to eliminate certain file names or files with certain... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a data file xyz.dat similar to the one given below,
2345|98|809||x|969|0
2345|98|809||y|0|537
2345|97|809||x|544|0
2345|97|809||y|0|651
9685|98|809||x|321|0
9685|98|809||y|0|357
9685|98|709||x|687|0
9685|98|709||y|0|234
2315|98|809||x|564|0
2315|98|809||y|0|537... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to delete the oldest file in folder when the file count in the folder exceed 6 ( i have a process that puts the source files into this folder )
E.x : Folder : /data/opt/backup
01/01/2012 a.txt
01/02/2012 b.txt
... (1 Reply)
hi,
I need a help. I used this command to list all the log files which are for more than 10 days to a text file.
find /usr/script_test -type f -mtime +10>>/usr/ftprm.txt
I want all these files listed in the ftprm.txt to be ftp in another machine and then rm the files.
Anyone can help me... (8 Replies)
Data files coming in different names in a file name called process.txt.
1. shipments_yyyymmdd.gz
2 Order_yyyymmdd.gz
3. Invoice_yyyymmdd.gz
4. globalorder_yyyymmdd.gz
The process needs to discard all the below files and only process two of the 4 file names available
... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have a control file which will contain all filenames(300) files. Loop through all the file names in the control files and check the existence of this file in another directory(same server). I need to infinitely(2 hrs) run this while loop until all the files are found. Once a file is found,... (5 Replies)
I have a tar arcive
arch_all.tar.gz
and 4 batched tar archive . These batches are supposed to have all the files form arch1.all.tar.gz
arch1_batch1.tar.gz
arch1_batch2.tar.gz
arch1_batch3.tar.gz
arch1_batch4.tar.gz
my issue is that the directory structure in "arch_all.tar.gz" is... (6 Replies)
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xargs
XARGS(1L)XARGS(1L)NAME
xargs - build and execute command lines from standard input
SYNOPSIS
xargs [-0prtx] [-e[eof-str]] [-i[replace-str]] [-l[max-lines]] [-n max-args] [-s max-chars] [-P max-procs] [--null] [--eof[=eof-str]]
[--replace[=replace-str]] [--max-lines[=max-lines]] [--interactive] [--max-chars=max-chars] [--verbose] [--exit] [--max-procs=max-procs]
[--max-args=max-args] [--no-run-if-empty] [--version] [--help] [command [initial-arguments]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of xargs. xargs reads arguments from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be pro-
tected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one or more times with any
initial-arguments followed by arguments read from standard input. Blank lines on the standard input are ignored.
xargs exits with the following status:
0 if it succeeds
123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125
124 if the command exited with status 255
125 if the command is killed by a signal
126 if the command cannot be run
127 if the command is not found
1 if some other error occurred.
OPTIONS
--null, -0
Input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every
character is taken literally). Disables the end of file string, which is treated like any other argument. Useful when arguments
might contain white space, quote marks, or backslashes. The GNU find -print0 option produces input suitable for this mode.
--eof[=eof-str], -e[eof-str]
Set the end of file string to eof-str. If the end of file string occurs as a line of input, the rest of the input is ignored. If
eof-str is omitted, there is no end of file string. If this option is not given, the end of file string defaults to "_".
--help Print a summary of the options to xargs and exit.
--replace[=replace-str], -i[replace-str]
Replace occurences of replace-str in the initial arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not termi-
nate arguments. If replace-str is omitted, it defaults to "{}" (like for `find -exec'). Implies -x and -l 1.
--max-lines[=max-lines], -l[max-lines]
Use at most max-lines nonblank input lines per command line; max-lines defaults to 1 if omitted. Trailing blanks cause an input
line to be logically continued on the next input line. Implies -x.
--max-args=max-args, -n max-args
Use at most max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is
exceeded, unless the -x option is given, in which case xargs will exit.
--interactive, -p
Prompt the user about whether to run each command line and read a line from the terminal. Only run the command line if the response
starts with `y' or `Y'. Implies -t.
--no-run-if-empty, -r
If the standard input does not contain any nonblanks, do not run the command. Normally, the command is run once even if there is no
input.
--max-chars=max-chars, -s max-chars
Use at most max-chars characters per command line, including the command and initial arguments and the terminating nulls at the ends
of the argument strings. The default is as large as possible, up to 20k characters.
--verbose, -t
Print the command line on the standard error output before executing it.
--version
Print the version number of xargs and exit.
--exit, -x
Exit if the size (see the -s option) is exceeded.
--max-procs=max-procs, -P max-procs
Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1. If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as possible at a
time. Use the -n option with -P; otherwise chances are that only one exec will be done.
SEE ALSO find(1L), locate(1L), locatedb(5L), updatedb(1) Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed)
XARGS(1L)