The modification time won't change if it's not modifying them. The access time might be more useful but many systems don't bother updating that for performance reasons.
diff won't give a good result -- it's meant for comparing source files, not lists of things. comm would work, if you sorted the two files.
It may take some work to produce lists that will compare right.
If you delete a file while it's open, it will no longer show in the directory listing but will still take up space on disk until it's closed, when it will finally disappear. (Which can be a big problem when you delete a giant logfile to free space and nothing happens.)
Hi ,
I am trying to use the find command with delete in a directory . Even though i use a wil character search the find command is checking the hidden files which inturn results in error .
Can i avoid look that into the hidden files ?? I am using HP unix .
find /cv1/ -name "ite*"... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have some 5 folders and two files in the current directory.
I want to delete all, expect one folder(files in the folder too should not be deleted) and a file in the current directory. Lets say the folder and file that should not be deleted as 'a'(folder name) and 'b'(file name). Can you... (1 Reply)
How do I exclude directories with the find command on Solaris?
I want to skip the directories /proc and /shared.
find / -nouser -print
This shows me all files and directories that don't have an owner but I need to skip /shared and /proc.
I've been able to get it to work on Linux... (3 Replies)
Hello,
Under one directory, I can use below command to find out the file names with string "Export terminated successfully without warnings"
grep -i -l "Export terminated successfully without warnings" *.*
My question is : how I find out the file names without including string
"Export... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory structure as below
/home/gad/Merl/a/a1.txt
/home/gad/Merl/b/a1.txt
/home/gad/Merl/c/a1.txt
How can I find the file a1.txt but not from directory 'a' and it(the filw) should loaded 6 days ago..
Can any one pls help,quick reply much appriciated..
Thanks. (1 Reply)
I have been searching, and cannot find an answer for this. I am trying to find all files for a user, lets call him (test001), and I want to exclude a specific directory.
Here is the command I run, it finds all files:
find / -user test001
I get this result:
> find / -user test001 ... (4 Replies)
I've looked at a few similar threads, but I can't bridge from those examples to what I'm working on, so I'm hoping someone can help.
I want to extend the following statement
find $PathToCheck -type f \( -not -iwholename "$ScriptDir/*" \) -exec md5sum "{}" \;>$NewSigs
to exclude several... (9 Replies)
hello.
I try to print a list of files but excluding some directories and some files.
I would like to write a command for :
find "from_dir" "ignore dir1, dir2, ..." "ignore file1, file2,...." "where file are older than 2017-02-03T06:00:00"
Note that "DO_IT" is a local function in the script... (5 Replies)
Hello.
For a given folder, I want to select any files find $PATH1 -f \( -name "*" but omit any files like pattern name ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.xsession*" ..... \) and also omit any subfolder like pattern name -type d \( -name "/etc/gconf/gconf.*" -o -name "*cache*" -o -name "*Cache*" -o... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have an inquiry on how do I use the find command in Solaris Unix to find some file ends with extension : txt, err in the root directory with modified date of 30days and this find command will also need to exclude b directory and its subdirectory. All the files from the above find criteria... (5 Replies)
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pidof
PIDOF(8) Linux System Administrator's Manual PIDOF(8)NAME
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
SYNOPSIS
pidof [-s] [-x] [-o omitpid] [-o omitpid..] program [program..]
DESCRIPTION
Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those id's on the standard output. This program is on some systems
used in run-level change scripts, especially when the system has a System-V like rc structure. In that case these scripts are located in
/etc/rc?.d, where ? is the runlevel. If the system has a start-stop-daemon (8) program that should be used instead.
OPTIONS -s Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
-x Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of shells running the named scripts.
-o Tells pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special pid %PPID can be used to name the parent process of the pidof pro-
gram, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
NOTES
pidof is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program, which should also be located in /sbin.
When pidof is invoked with a full pathname to the program it should find the pid of, it is reasonably safe. Otherwise it is possible that
it returns pids of running programs that happen to have the same name as the program you're after but are actually other programs.
SEE ALSO shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8)AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
01 Sep 1998 PIDOF(8)