I want to perform a task on all the files in the current directory but I'd like to loop through them one at a time. How do I tell it to give me the first filename? (2 Replies)
Hi All
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
Dear All:
we are using backup command on AIX to take backup
as below in this command we also add compress command
ulimit unlimited
cd /apps/oracle
find orcldb orcldata arch |tee /apps/orabkp/ofgl.faysalbank.com-17Jun10Thu-ORCL-DB.bkp.gz.log | backup -ivqf - |gzip -c >... (0 Replies)
Hello Every one,
I want to back up all passwd files to /xyz/passfiles.cpio
and Then restore them to /abc directory.
Here is what I wrote:
find / -name passwd | cpio -oc > /tmp/passwd.cpio
and to restore
cd abc
cpio -ium < /tmp/passwd.cpio
I can not find the files restored to /abc... (2 Replies)
I wanna make a backup tarball. I wanna write a script that makes tarball of the current directory.
There are lots of files so I cant type all files, I wanna make the tarball by excluding few files.
Like there 1000 files in a directory I wanna create a tarball containing 98 files of that... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I want to use the string with the current directory in my awk command.
I tried: 'pwd=system("pwd")'
but it doesn't work. can please help somebody? (2 Replies)
I am trying to restore a specific directory and all sub-directories therein using a rootvg tape. I am using the following command to make the backup:
mksysb -m -i -v /dev/rmt0
However, I am getting the following result:
tctl status
rmt0 Available 04-08-00-0,0 LVD SCSI 4mm Tape Drive... (10 Replies)
Hi, I'm very new to Unix, but have been given a command to type in which is :
mail -s <email subject goes here> <my email address> <success.txt
this command is quite a basic one and sends an email containing the contents of the file "success.txt" to whatever email I put in with the subject of... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have taken a backup of a directory on my tape in using below command
cd /backup
find * -print|backup -ivf '/dev/rmt0' '-U' |tee -a /syslogs/backup.log and output appear in below format.
a 0 rman-before-08032014
a 58403323904... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dds-dd
dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS -f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
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