Are you sure you were seeing the man page for the gnu version of make, and not a different one from your MANPATH? There are at least 15 occurrences of the word GNU in the GNU make man page, including in the first few lines:
Hi
I need to move multiple (say 10 files) from one location to another location. My selection would be like this...
ls -ltr *.arc | head ---> Need to move top 10 files with single command without iterating in loop. I know we can move files like this with find command but not sure if I can... (4 Replies)
What I'm trying to do is perform a copy, well a ditto actually, on the results of a find command, but some inline string substitution needs to happen.
So if I run this code find ./ -name "*.tif" I get back these results.
.//1234567.tif
.//abcdefg.tif
Now the action from exec or xargs I... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Can somebody explain what is the difference in the below commands.. when using Xargs its giving all the hidden files and is it something xargs will do recursive searching or parsing ?
find . -type f -links 1 | xargs ls -li
find . -type f -links 1 | ls -li (1 Reply)
Hey all. Just a fast question, what is the technical difference between using back ticks and using xargs to perform a command?
Here's an example
Find /mydir -name *.conf |xargs rm
Vs
Rm 'find /mydir -name *.conf'
Is there a performance hit? I know they do the same thing but which is... (1 Reply)
I have read several docs on these on the web and looked at examples. I can't figure out the difference. In some cases you use one or the other or you combine them.
can someone help me understand this? (1 Reply)
I have the following bash script lines in a file named test.sh.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Write Date to cron.log
#
echo "Begin SSI Load $(date +%d%b%y_%T)"
#
# Get the latest rates file for processing.
#
d=$(ls -tr /rms/data/ssi | grep -v "processed" | tail -n 1)
filename=$d
export filename... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
i'm trying to create a tar of all the .txt files i find in my dir . I've used xargs to acheive this but i wanted to do this with exec and looks like it only archives the last file it finds . can some one advice what's wrong here :
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0... (9 Replies)
Hi,
What is the difference between the following commands
find . -type f -exec grep 'abc' {} \;
and
find . -type f | xargs grep 'abc'
Appreciate your help. (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to move all the file listed by below command to /tmp/testing directory
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +3
I tried using -exec and xargs - none of the combination is working?
Please, help (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: saurabh84g
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
groups
GROUPS(1) User Commands GROUPS(1)NAME
groups - print the groups a user is in
SYNOPSIS
groups [OPTION]... [USERNAME]...
DESCRIPTION
Print group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USERNAME is specified, for the current process (which may differ if the groups database
has changed).
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.
REPORTING BUGS
Report groups bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report groups translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for groups is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and groups programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'groups invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 GROUPS(1)