So I am using find with a redirection operator to a plain text file. Now I want to say... cat that file and pipe it to xargs using the cp command to copy them all to a single directory so I can tar them into a tar ball... but I am screwing it up!!
You you don't say what OS you are using some GNU options can make this task easier. If cp implementations the cp -t DIRECTORY SOURCE ... method, then this makes xargs much easier to work with:
Also GNU xargs allows a --no-run-if-empty which to avoids invoking cp if no files exist to be copied.
If NEW_PDF_DIR is under your home directory, you will want to prune it to avoid trying to backup the backup files!
Hai I just want to find a file *.txt in particular direcotry and display the file name puls the content. Do someone know hot to do this, thanks.
I try :
find test/ -name '*.txt' | xargs cat
but It does'nt print out the file name, i want something below print out in my screen :
test/1.txt... (4 Replies)
Hello,
So I sorted my file as I was supposed to:
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2
and when I wrote
> cat file2
in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself
...
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp
cat file2
It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)
Hi,
I am having trouble getting a combination of commands to work.
I need to traverse through all sub-directories of a certain directory and 'cat' the contents of a particular file in the sub-directories.
The commands on their own work but when I combine them I get no output.
The... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have to find if a pattern is present in a line.
eq
line="dasdasd hello asdasdasd"
Have to find if "hello" is present in the line or not.
Which command to be used?
Thanks (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am creating a script to do a find and replace single/multiple lines in a file with any number of lines.
I have written a logic in a script that reads a reference file say "findrep" and populates two variables $FIND and $REPLACE
print $FIND gives
Hi How r $u
Rahul()
Note:... (0 Replies)
I am trying to delete files older than 60 days from a folder:
find /myfolder/*.dat -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
ERROR - argument list too long: find
I can't just give the folder name, as there are some files that I don't want to delete. So i need to give with the pattern (*.dat). I can... (3 Replies)
How can I recursively find all files in a directory and print out the file and first line number of any text blocks that match the below cases?
This would seem to involve find, xargs, *grep, regex, etc.
In summary, I want to find so-called empty "try-catch blocks" that do not contain code... (0 Replies)
Guys, need help.
I have a file that contains something like this:
abc
def
ghi
jkl
I want to print the first and last line of the file and the output should be in a single line.
so, output should be like this:
abc jkl (3 Replies)
Hi all,
How can i display the middle line of a file using a single line command? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lakme Pemmaiah
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rdup-up
RDUP-UP(1) rdup RDUP-UP(1)NAME
rdup-up - update a directory tree with a rdup archive
SYNOPSIS
rdup-up [OPTION]... DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
With rdup-up you can update an (possibly) existing directory structure with a rdup archive.
The rdup archive has to be given to rdup-up's standard input.
Username and uids
rdup outputs both the username and uid, the receiving system (which may be a totally different system) checks if the username and uid
match. If the username and uid don't match the (numeric) uid is used on the file. The same holds true for the groupname and gid.
OPTIONS -n Do a dry-run and do not create anything on disk.
-t Create DIRECTORY (ala mkdir -p) if it does not exist.
-s N Strip N path components from a pathname. If the resulting pathname is empty after this operation it is skipped. Be careful however
with the following structure:
/foo
/foo/bar
/foo/bar/bla.txt
/foo/blork/bla.txt
With rdup-up -s2 this will leave:
<empty>
<empty>
/bla.txt
/bla.txt
And the last 'bla.txt' will overwrite the previous one, this will happen without warnings.
-r PATH
This option is related to the -s option, but works different. The string PATH is removed from (the beginning of) each pathname. With
-r /home/backup the pathname /home/backup/bin/mycmd becomes /bin/mycmd. The same could be done with -s 2, but then you need to count
the slashes. Note -s is always performed before -r.
-v Be more verbose and echo the processed files to standard output.
-vv Be even more verbose and echo processed file and the uid and gid information to standard output.
-T Show a table of contents of the rdup stream received (ala tar -tf -). With -T the directory argument is optional. -T unsets any
verbose (-v) options.
-h A short help message.
-V Show the version.
EXIT CODE
rdup-up return a zero exit code on success, otherwise 1 is returned.
AUTHOR
Written by Miek Gieben.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <miek@miek.nl>.
SEE ALSO
http:/www.miek.nl/projects/rdup/ is the main site of rdup. Also see rdup(1), rdup-tr(1) and rdup-backups(7).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Miek Gieben. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Licensed under the GPL version 3. See the file LICENSE in the source distribution of rdup.
1.1.11 13 Dec 2008 RDUP-UP(1)