Let me paraphrase your request:
Move exactly one "CM" and one "CL" file to the respective directory (as, once a file has been moved, the directory is not empty any more). You did not specify anything about a sort order. How about
You might want to loop through all file types in a for loop.
I would like to create a command to copy a file with a restriction- if the file exists at the copy destination, the copy does not occur and message is provided that file already exists. (3 Replies)
I was sure there was a way to put a timestamp ina logfile but I can't seem to figure out how.
What I would like to do is after the last messages in the rptmgr.err log is put a timestamp so I know the next time I look whats new. I am using AIX 5.1
any help will great
Thanks (2 Replies)
Oracle procedure create files on UNIX folder on a regular basis. I need to FTP files onto windows server and place the files, based on their name, in the corresponding folders. File name is as follows: ccyymmddfoldernamefile.txt; Folder Name length could be of any size; however, the prefix and... (3 Replies)
I want to output screen messages to a logfile when executing an automated script. I have tried the script and command to do this but with no luck.
Thanks,
Nicole (5 Replies)
Hi,
I've set up a script so that a user answers questions, and then these answers come back onto the screen accompanied by text that I've echoed. Is there a way of putting this into a new file?
Thanks (7 Replies)
This is the file structure:
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder1qweqwasdfsd/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder2asdasdasd/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder3asdadfhgasdf/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder4qwetwdfsdfg/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
This is what I am trying to achieve but to no avail.
I have three sets of files which are:
1. One big dictionary file which looks like this:
apple
orange
computer
pear
country
2. Some thousands of text files which are named as 1.dat, 2.dat, 3.dat etc
The text files... (2 Replies)
I am using du -h --max-depth=2 to get list of folders by size upto 2 levels down. Problem is I am not able to sort them in max folder size.
Normally this can be achieved by using du -k | sort -nr * but I can't use it here since it conflicts (the -s argument) with the --max-depth=2 argument.
... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
Just want to ask how can I make a script that will perform like this.
1. Execute the command
2. Then the output of the command will be redirected to a file
2. The file that has been created will have a date on it equivalent to the date and time it was created (or maybe after the... (5 Replies)
I have a file with the following content:
a-123-345-232
a-23343-4545-545
a-67676-45454-8787
a-129-8912-9824
b-564-78678-2322
b-5454-76767-8899
b-85554-124-152-29
c-34534-654543-323
(... and so on, actually these are pretty huge records)
Now, I want that the file should not be broken in to... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: askerbis
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
mktemp
MKTEMP(1) BSD General Commands Manual MKTEMP(1)NAME
mktemp -- make temporary file name (unique)
SYNOPSIS
mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template
DESCRIPTION
The mktemp utility takes the given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a file name. This file name is unique and
suitable for use by the application. The template may be any file name with at least 6 of 'Xs' appended to it, for example /tmp/temp.XXXXXX.
The trailing 'Xs' are replaced with the current process number and/or a unique letter combination. The number of unique file names mktemp
can return depends on the number of 'Xs' provided; six 'Xs' will result in mktemp testing roughly 26 ** 6 combinations.
If mktemp can successfully generate a unique file name, the file is created with mode 0600 (unless the -u flag is given) and the filename is
printed to standard output.
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
-d Make a directory instead of a file.
-q Fail silently if an error occurs. This is useful if a script does not want error output to go to standard error.
-u Operate in ``unsafe'' mode. The temp file will be unlinked before mktemp exits. This is slightly better than mktemp(3) but still
introduces a race condition. Use of this option is not encouraged.
RETURN VALUES
The mktemp utility exits with a value of 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
EXAMPLES
The following sh(1) fragment illustrates a simple use of mktemp where the script should quit if it cannot get a safe temporary file.
TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/$0.XXXXXX` || exit 1
echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE
In this case, we want the script to catch the error itself.
TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
Note that one can also check to see that $TMPFILE is zero length instead of checking $?. This would allow the check to be done later one in
the script (since $? would get clobbered by the next shell command).
SEE ALSO mkstemp(3), mktemp(3)HISTORY
The mktemp utility appeared in OpenBSD.
BSD November, 20, 1996 BSD