I want to thank you all again for the replies. When I first read your comments about the standout output issues, I really didn't understand what you were talking about. Today I had to use the grep results and manipulate it with sed. I noticed after the sed, the file names were not lined up in the right place. I re-read your replies many times and did a lot of debugging. I finally understand!!!
Don't know if it's the best way to fix the problem but it does the job:
I wouldn't know to do any of these if you did not make the suggestions.
Thank you very much!!!
I have a SQL script that requires values from the environment in order to execute. I found a way to get the desired results but my process is a little choppy. Any suggestions on how to clean this up would be greatly appreciated.
SQL Script
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select a, b, c
from d
where a =... (1 Reply)
Hello ,
I am trying to print the footer of evry file in the given directory with xargs command like follows
ls -1 | xargs -I {} gzcat {} | tail -1
now problem with this is only last file foooter is getting printed as " | tail -1 " is getting executed for the last file.
I know this can... (4 Replies)
Can anyone interpret and tell me the way the below command works?
find * -name "*${msgType}" -mtime +${archiveDays} -prune -type f -print 2>/dev/null | xargs rm -f 2> /dev/null
Please tell me the usage of prune and xargs in the above command?
Looking forward your reply.
Thanks in... (1 Reply)
This is going to be part of a longer script with more features, but I have boiled it down to the one thing that is presently stumping me. The goal is a script which checks for updates to web pages that can be run as a cron job. The script reads (from a tab-delim file) a URL, an MD5 digest, and an... (1 Reply)
I'm trying to get a count of all the files in a series of directories on a per directory basis. Directory structure is like (but with many more files):
/dir1/subdir1/file1.txt
/dir1/subdir1/file2.txt
/dir1/subdir2/file1.txt
/dir1/subdir2/file2.txt
/dir2/subdir1/file1.txt... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to pipe the output from a command into another using xargs but is not getting what I want. Running this commands:
find . -name '33_cr*.rod' | xargs -n1 -t -i cut -f5 {} | sort -k1.3n | uniq | wc -l
give the following output:
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
...
9224236... (7 Replies)
Using the below code I want to find all .sff files and extract them. This works but it seems very cheap. Is there a safer more efficient way to go about this?
#!/bin/bash
G1=(/home/dirone)
find ${G1} -type f -name \*.sff | xargs python /usr/local/bin/sff_extract.py (3 Replies)
Hi
I am tryin to undertand piping
command1|command2
from what i learn output of cammand 2 is an intput for command 1 right?
If so .
What dose next sequence do
cat f1 >> f2 | grep '^'
I think it takes context of f1 and Concatenate's it to f2 and then looks for ....i don't know..... (7 Replies)
Hello. There is my one-liner to get subjects of potential spam mails
sudo exiqgrep -bf "spamer@example.com" |cut -d' ' -f1 |xargs -I ~ sudo /usr/sbin/exim -Mvh ~ |grep 'Subject: '
I want to insert blank line after each iteration to make output more readable. I tried
sudo exiqgrep -bf... (1 Reply)
can someone please help me fix the below one liner?
what i want to do is run a command, and if that command is successful, pipe the output of the command to another command. i'd prefer not to use any temp files for this.
who -blahblah ; if ; then echo exit; fi | egrep username (2 Replies)