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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi expert,
Is there any fastest way to calculate recursive directory, and I have total 600 directories have 100000 files and 10 directory approximately 9000000 - 10000000 each files per directory. currently using this command "du -k --max-depth=0" to get the size but very slow it take 24 hours... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: rufino
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Is there a way to calculate how many times a particular symbol appeared in a string before a particular word.
Desktop/Myfiles/pet/dog/puppy
So, I want to count number of occurence of"/" in this directory before the word dog lets say.
Cheers,
Bob (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: FUTURE_EINSTEIN
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I'm looking over all the internet for finding how to make a count of the files for every directory apart.. not a total result for the xx directories.
For example:
-dir1
file1
file2
-subdir1
-subdir2
file1
-subdir3
file1
-dir2
-dir3
file4
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: CODIII
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Need a Unix command to save the last 20 versions of a file in a specific directory and delete everything else. Date is irrelevant. Anyone aware of such an animal?
In my test, I came up with:
ls -t1 /tmp/testfile* | tail -n +20 | xargs rm
I don’t quite trust the author though! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rwsherman
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello I'm trying to do an exercise programming in bash where I have to get only the store of files in a directory but NOT all capacity of the directory.
I probe with: du -sh "$directory"*` but I get all the capacity and I probe with ls command but I couldnt.
Are there any way to get only files... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: adiegorpc
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ammu
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello All. I am trying to do this from a terminal prompt on my mac....
I have 100 folders all named different things. Those 100 folders are inside ~/Desktop/Pictures directory.
Each of the 100 folders are uniquely named. The image files inside of each folder only have some similarities.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: yoyoyo777
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
what's the script to do that?
i want to only count the number of files in that directory, not including any sub directories at all (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: finalight
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am relatively new to Unix and trying to understand as much as I can.
I would like to know if it's possible to count the total number of Unix accounts? If so, can the count be done from any working directory or does it have to be specific to where the accounts are based?
Thanks! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Trogan
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello
i need help to remove directory . The directory is not empty ., it contains
several sub directories and files inside that..
total number of files in one directory is 12,24,446 .
rm -rf doesnt work . it is prompting for every file ..
i want to delete without prompting and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: getdpg
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