For problem 1, the following works for me (under Linux)
ls -1 $dir1 | xargs -i -t mv $dir1/{} $dir2/{}
Should work in solaris too (-i and -I are equivalent - you don't need the {} after -i either as this is assumed as default).
When you say "does not work..." in what way does it not work, what error output is there, etc.
With Problem 2 - you are expanding the contents of "$files" which contains more filenames (i.e. arguments) than ls can handle (the sort of thing xargs was designed to combat!).
I think you'd be better off dropping the xargs approach altogether with this problem, and generate a file containing the list of filenames. Then just use a while loop to iterate through, e.g.
Just my two pence though!
I'm using Imagemagick to create thumbnails for a large directory tree. The only thing I can't see is how to get it to write the thumbnails to a "thumbs" subdirectory!
Either of these two commands from the Imagemagick site does most of the job:
find -name '*.jpg' | xargs -n1 sh -c 'convert $0... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I could not understand why the following command does not work
find . -name "foo" | xargs rm -i
but,
find . -name "foo" | xargs rm works perfectly alright. (3 Replies)
Dear all,
I have tried the following 2 lines
xargs -t -i -exec grep -i -w {} file_1 >>test < file_2
cat -s file_2| xargs -t -i -exec grep -i -w {} file_1 >> test
They were meant to search for the contents of file_2 in file_1 and write the respective lines of file_1 into file "test" .... (15 Replies)
Hi,
Under my parent diectory I have directory named "Response" in many of its subfolders. I am interested to see all files with extention .pro in Response Directory. I am giving following command -
find . -name "Response" -type d | xargs -i ls -lrt {}/*.pro
but it is not giving result.
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to use "xargs" command to loop through each file, modify it and overwrite the old file with the modification but with the same file name.
I thought it is easy but I just can't get it to work
I tried the following
I thought {} would give me the current file name, but it... (1 Reply)
hi
Could any one please tell me the option using which we can run multiple commands using xargs
I have list of files, I want to run dos2unix and chmod at one shot on them
I tried google n searched man pages but couldnt really find the solution , please help
right now im doing this
ls... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to pipe the output from a command into another using xargs but is not getting what I want. Running this commands:
find . -name '33_cr*.rod' | xargs -n1 -t -i cut -f5 {} | sort -k1.3n | uniq | wc -l
give the following output:
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
...
9224236... (7 Replies)
Using the bash shell I'm trying to either create a command for the command line or a script that will show netstat info for a given process name. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:$ ps aux |grep catalina |grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
5132
$ netstat -nlp |grep 5132
(Not all processes... (11 Replies)
I entered the following <zzz.list xargs showtell |more which does a echo "<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"
head -20 $1 The file zzz.list contains 525 lines representing user scripts (1 per line), but only the first, 181st, and 399th lines were processed. What am I missing?
TIA (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wbport
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
dircmp
dircmp(1) User Commands dircmp(1)NAME
dircmp - directory comparison
SYNOPSIS
dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2
DESCRIPTION
The dircmp command examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabulated information about the contents of the directories. Listings of
files that are unique to each directory are generated for all the options. If no option is entered, a list is output indicating whether the
file names common to both directories have the same contents.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d Compares the contents of files with the same name in both directories and output a list telling what must be changed in the two
files to bring them into agreement. The list format is described in diff(1).
-s Suppresses messages about identical files.
-w n Changes the width of the output line to n characters. The default width is 72.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
dir1 A path name of a directory to be compared.
dir2
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of dircmp when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of dircmp: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred. (Differences in directory contents are not considered errors.)
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 dircmp(1)