Hi,
Having a simple issue with find command on Sun. The command works fine if the variable is set to the actual filesystem but fails when the variable is set to a link which is pointing to the same filesystem.
export DUMPDEST=/oradata1/exports/pbm - Set the variable
... (2 Replies)
Hi all, i'm new at shell scripting world...
I'm working on a script for searching old files on a server, this scripts runs with a configuration file wich indicates where to search the files, the script should search for all files that are older than an x qty of days, and the only clue that i have... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am issuing find command below mentioned ways but it givs different count. I don't understand the behaviour. Could any one have any clue?
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -lrt {} \; | wc -l
169
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
47
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 | wc -l... (2 Replies)
I am currently using below command to get the 1st three characters of a file(PDM). Issue is, when i use find command in root dir, it finds all the files in sub dir also.
How to limit the find command search to a given path only(ie: say only find file in apps/cmplus/datamigration/data path... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm a bit new to Linux environment, moderately okay when it comes to Unix AIX. I'm facing an issue while trying to run a simple find command:
$ for file in `find . -name *.*`
> do
> ls $file
> done
This is throwing the following error:
Strangely, a few minutes... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am not root user. I am trying to find the file which has contains pattern "fvsfile" in root directory.
If i run the find cmd then i got permission denied and all the files are listed include pattern files. i cant get file name yet
find . print | xargs grep -i "fvsfile"
I want... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have created a shell script for Server Log Automation Process. I have used
find xargs grep command to search the string.
for Example,
find -name | xargs grep "816995225" > test.txt .
Here my problem is,
We have lot of records and we want to grep the string... (4 Replies)
Guys,
Here is my requirement..
Sample.cfg
file="*log.gz *txt.gz"
sample.sh
#!/bin/sh
. $HOME/Sample.cfg
find . -name "$file" -mtime +20 -exec ls -la {} \;
Its not finding the given *log.gz and txt.gz files.
Could anyone please help me? (8 Replies)
Hi
I am using the below code to find mv the files.
Files are moving to the Target location as expected but find is displaying some errors like below.
find ./ -name "Archive*" -mtime +300 -exec mv {} /mnt/X/ARC/ \;
find: `./Archive_09-30-12': No such file or directory
find:... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a file called error.logs. am just trying to display the content in the file which was modified last 1 day. I tried below command but it doesnt give the proper output.
find /u/text/vinoth/bin "error.logs" -mtime -1 -exec cat {} \; >> mail.txt
Any help is much... (21 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vinoth Kumar G
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)