1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, I would like to write a script to automate the copy and renaming of files in multiple dir. I have a generic file named s253e.prb and would like to copy this to multiple dir and rename it. Example: Dir is AL-M1 and the prb file name is AL-M1.prb. I would like to be able to... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a script below which meant to decompress *.tr.gz to allocated folder. e.g. hello.tar.gz should be decompress to a subdirectory called hello and all the files should be in hello subdirectory. How do i do it? Am i missing anything? Condition: there are existing tar.gz in teh... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am trying to rsync some of the latest files from remote m/c to my local linux box. Folder structure in my remote m/c looks like this /pub/Nightly/Package/ROLL/WIN /pub/Nightly/Package/SOLL/sol /pub/Nightly/Package/SOLL/linux Each of the folder contains gzip files which on daily... (0 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want a mechanism to monitor a folder full of files that are sensitive. I want to log all accesses,modifications and changes to any file within the folder in a log file which should give me access/modify/change times,the user id of the process which tried and the pid. Even some idea of what to... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get a list of folders contained in a given directory and would then like to delete any folders/files older than 60mins. So far I am able to get the list of folders using: ls -l /home/uploads | grep '^d.*' the output: drwxr-xr-x 6 flk flk 4096 2010-02-11 13:30... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, all: I've got two folders, say, "folder1" and "folder2". Under each, there are thousands of files. It's quite obvious that there are some files missing in each. I just would like to find them. I believe this can be done by "diff" command. However, if I change the above question a... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to download all files from a user authentication, password protected https site, with a particular extension (.bam). The files are ~20GB each and I am not sure if the below is the best way to do it. I am also not sure how to direct the downloaded files to a folder as well as external... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i have a requirement to delete all the files from all the directories except some specific directories like archive and log. for example: there are following directories such as A B C D Archive E Log F which contains some sub directories and files. The requirement is to delete all the... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a directory /home/cmccabe/nfs/exportedReports that contains multiple folders in it. The find writes the name of each folder to out.txt. A new directory is then created in a new location /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API, named with the date. What I am trying to do, unsuccessfully at the moment,... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Experts, Any help is appreciated. I would like to find and replace a string in a specific file ( e.g abc.xml) only for the directories starting with "AB 1.0 DIR". I've 50 sub directories starting with "AB 1.0 DIR". And I would like find the file abc.xml in those sub-directories and... (4 Replies)