I was hoping to get some assistance with this C program I am working on. The goal is to find the largest file in the current directory and then display this filename along with the filesize. What I have so far will display all the files in the current directory. But, how do I deal with "grabbing"... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have three files in a directory:
1_700_123456.lst
1_701_123456.lst
1_702_123456.lst
I am trying to use a command via ksh that will list the file that has the lowest number in the second node and put that to a file.
In the example above, it would put 1_700_123456.lst... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie to scripting and I need your help regarding finding the oldest file in a particular directory. My intention is to remove that oldest file.
Are there any options available with the "find" command to do this..
Thanks in advance for your help
Pavan (4 Replies)
I need to find all the files with a given file name present in the sub directories and execute a script on each file
For example In the directory source , I need to find all the files named test and execute the script run.sh
Can anyone please help me on this (4 Replies)
I am trying to determine the oldest and most recent files in a huge directory. I am using an ls -tr statement outside my find statement. The directory is too big and I am getting an "arg list too long" error. Is there something I can put in my find statement that doesn't create a list to... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
im a new guy if it comes to Unix. I am trying to auto categorize Nzbget downloads the most basic way. I already manage to find files within the directory i'm at and move them with if check to a certain dir. Unfortunately this command is restricted to the directory i'm at and does not... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using the below command to find the latest file in a dir:
ls -tr $v_sftphomedir/$v_sourcefile |tail -1
or
ls -t1 $v_sftphomedir/$v_sourcefile |head -1
and the outpur returned is below:
/home/cobr_sftp/var/controllingload/Backup/Dbrwds_Div_1796050246.txt
I need only the... (5 Replies)
hi,
I need to find files that have been created less than 3 days ago. However, I need to only search specific directories.
I've searched about the net and found some useful commands such as :
find . -type d -name 'dir_to_exclude' -prune -o -print -mtime -3
however I cannot get it... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Is there a way to find out the size of a sub-directory?
Eg subidrectory in main directory /data, like this : /data/solr-5.3.1.
When I do a df -h /data/solr-5.3.1, it still gives the size of /data:
root@L28condor:/data/solr-5.3.1# df -h .
Filesystem Size Used... (1 Reply)
I need to find the latest file -filename_YYYYMMDD in the directory DIR. the below is not working as the position is shifting each time because of the spaces between(occuring mostly at file size field as it differs every time.)
please suggest if there is other way.
report =‘ls -ltr... (2 Replies)