The purpose of those comands are to find the newest file in a directory acvrdind to system date, and it has to be recursively found in each directory.
The problem is that i want to list in a long format every found file, but the commands i use produce unexpected results ,so the output lists in a... (5 Replies)
I have the following statement in script:
find ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${BTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN2} -print | while read file; do
...
done
When there are no files located by the find comand it returns:
"find: bad status-- /home/rnitcher/test/....." to the command line
How do I get control in... (3 Replies)
I want the output of the find command to be printed and also the total files found by it. Can someone help in this.
Obviously $ find . -type f | wc -l will not output the files found but only the count. I want both. There can be millions and trillions of files so dont want the output of find... (3 Replies)
Hi,
i'm currently writing a script which tidys up old files. When using the find command I found that some files were not being listed
/export/home/ops***/test: ls -l processed
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ops*** ****** 0 Apr 20 11:53 test99
/export/home/ops***/test: ls -l
total 4... (9 Replies)
Trying to locate files less than xx days old, throughout all directories/subdirectories, but excluding certain types of directories and files.
The directories I want to search all contain the same characteristic (dbdef, pldef, ghdef, etc), and there are subdirectories within that I need to... (2 Replies)
Hi, I am new in scripting, and I am currently working on a script that will look for other files in a certain directory and exclude some file type.
this works fine:Find_File2Exclude=`find ${paths} -maxdepth 1 -type f \( ! -iname '*.out' ! -iname '*.auc' ! -iname '*.cps' ! -iname '*.log' ! -iname... (4 Replies)
Hello Forum,
I'm using the following command to find all inactive kernels installed on my RHEL server:
$ rpm -qa | grep '^kernel-' |grep -vE `uname -r`
but the result is in two lines:
kernel-3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-1062.el7.x86_64
Is there a one line command I can... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: greavette
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)