Hi Robbin,
vgersh99 is correct in noting that quoted asterisks, question marks, etc. are matched by the shell as literal strings. To use asterisks to match any string of characters in a pathname and to use a question mark to match any single character in a pathname in pathname pattern expansions, the asterisks and question marks cannot be quoted.
Since there are no IFS characters in either Deposit_ or Withdrawal_, no quotes are required. But, any of the following would work:
unless the pathnames roll over from Deposit_999 to Deposit_1000 and Withdrawal_999 to Withdrawal_1000.
Hi fretagi,
If you are trying to find the last two files based on most recent modification timestamp instead of by alphanumeric filename sort order consider trying one of the following instead:
Either of these will work even when the number of digits increases in the matched filenames.
Im trying to transfers a file from one unix server to another , make some changes and then send it back to the original server. All this using modems.
I've been using "cu" and i can "get" the file but i can't "put" it. Besides I need to do this using a shell script. I can write a script to get... (4 Replies)
What commands do you need to transfer a specfic portion of a file content to another file?
eg file_one has
00012 10012
00013 10013
00014 10014
So I just want to transfer all the values of the second column ie 10012, 10013, 10014 to be transferred to file_two?
Thanks in advance.... (1 Reply)
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)
Hi Friends,
Newbie to shell scripting. Currently i have used the below to sort data based on filenames and datestamp
$ printf '%s\n' *.dat* | sort -t. -k3,4
filename_1.dat.20120430.Z
filename_2.dat.20120430.Z
filename_3.dat.20120430.Z
filename_1.dat.20120501.Z
filename_2.dat.20120501.Z... (1 Reply)
Hi Friends,
Newbie to shell scripting
Currently i have used the below to sort data based on filenames and datestamp
$ printf '%s\n' *.dat* | sort -t. -k3,4
filename_1.dat.20120430.Z
filename_2.dat.20120430.Z
filename_3.dat.20120430.Z
filename_1.dat.20120501.Z
filename_2.dat.20120501.Z... (12 Replies)
Hi
I have a scenario:
I have a directory say DIR1 (no sub directories) and have few files in that directory as given below:
app-cnd-imp-20150820.txt
app-cxyzm-imp-20150820.txt
app-petco-imp-20150820.txt
app-mobility-imp-20150820.txt
app-mobility-imp-20150821.txt... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Saanvi1
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
tail
TAIL(1) General Commands Manual TAIL(1)NAME
tail - deliver the last part of a file
SYNOPSIS
tail [ +-number[lbc][rf] ] [ file ]
tail [ -fr ] [ -n nlines ] [ -c ncharacters ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Tail copies the named file to the standard output beginning at a designated place. If no file is named, the standard input is copied.
Copying begins at position +number measured from the beginning, or -number from the end of the input. Number is counted in lines, 1K
blocks or characters, according to the appended flag or Default is -10l (ten ell).
The further flag causes tail to print lines from the end of the file in reverse order; (follow) causes tail, after printing to the end, to
keep watch and print further data as it appears.
The second syntax is that promulgated by POSIX, where the numbers rather than the options are signed.
EXAMPLES
tail file
Print the last 10 lines of a file.
tail +0f file
Print a file, and continue to watch data accumulate as it grows.
sed 10q file
Print the first 10 lines of a file.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/tail.c
BUGS
Tails relative to the end of the file are treasured up in a buffer, and thus are limited in length.
According to custom, option +number counts lines from 1, and counts blocks and characters from 0.
TAIL(1)