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Find command does not work on AIX 6.1

I have AiX system version 6.1 I wish the below find command to work on AiX system ksh shell and give similar output as this works fine on RedHat Linux centos 7. find /app/logs/fname1.out -printf "%M %u %TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM %h/%f $(cksum<fname1.out | cut -d' ' -f1)\n" Output: -rw-r--r--...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Why regex pattern doesn't work in find?

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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

find command in shell script doesn't work

Hello all, Something strange going on with a shell script I'm writing. It's trying to write a list of files that it finds in a given directory to another file. But I also have a skip list so matching files that are in that skip list should be, well uhm, skipped :) Here's the code of my...

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find command returns files with spaces, mv won't work...

Hi guys. I am trying, to move files found with the find command... Script runs fine, until it reaches a file that contains spaces... Here is what i wrote up quickly. ROOTDIR=/apps/data SEARCH=$(find /data/HDTMPRestore/home/tmq/ -type f -print | grep Mods/Input/bck | cut -c19-) for i...

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To Know this find and delete will work ???..

All, I have a question . I have a directoy which have permision like drwxrwxr-x 5 root cusr 8192 Dec 5 12:50 test I dont have write permision to delete . inside the directory i am having many files . with permision like $cd test ...

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find options don't work in script

Hi, I'm trying to write a bash script to find some files. However it seems that the find command is not behaving the same way when the script is executed as it does when executed from the command line: Script extract: #!/bin/bash ... NEW="/usr/bin/find current/applications/ -name '*jar'...

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How to get Find command work with a variable passing "*" value?

Hi guy, I have a problem to pass a variable containing '*' value to FIND command. below is the script. It doesn't work by submit below command: rmf.sh name '*.txt' or rmf.sh name *.txt I've tried either optn="-name '$2'" or optn="-name $2"., and there is no luck. ### (script...

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Hi There, I have a script which finds for log files and removes them if the file has changed in the last day. The script runs fine without errors. The log file is still there. So, I decided to print the find command and run the command outside the script. Getting "Incomplete statement" Can you...

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find & sed -i work fine. Now need -i workaround for old OS.

I have a script that does a search and replace on a tree using find, xargs and sed that looks something like this. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/fromthis/tothis/g' Now this works fine on new versions on Linux but I need to make the script work on an old RAQ550 that has an older...

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How to find size of each subdirect? du -sk | ls doesn't work

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