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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Using the 'strings' command and piping the result to 'sort' is producing strange results. I get block of lines that begin with asterisks, then a block that begins with some text, then more lines that begin with asterisks. The actual content is correct - lines beginning with asterisks is the... (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Good morning all,
This is the file name in question OD_Orders_2019-02-19.csv
I am trying to create a bash script to read into files with yesterdays date on the file name while retaining the rest of the files name. I would like for $y to equal, the name of the file with a formula output with... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Folks -
I have this file that looks like this:
outbox/logs/Client_1042.log
outbox/logs/Client_941.log
outbox/logs/Client_942.log
outbox/logs/Client_943.log
outbox/logs/Client_944.log
And this is my code:
#!/bin/bash
_OUTBOX_BIN="outbox/logs/"
_NAME="Client"
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to remove any files that are older than 2 days from a directory. It deletes those files. Then it comes back with a message it is a directory. What am I doing wrong here?
+ find /mydir -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
rm: /mydir is a directory (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jtamminen
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Disclaimer, I've been a Linux admin for a while but don't frequently setup rsysnc jobs.
Here's the command I'm running on CentOS 5.5, rsync 2.6.8:
rsync -arvz --progress --compress-level=9 /src/ /dest/
/src has 1.5 TB of data, /dest/ is a new destination and started out empy. Oh ya, both... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello ,
When using vim, can ctag and cscope support recording search results and displaying the history results ? Once I jump to one tag, I can use :tnext to jump to next tag, but how can I display the preview search result? (0 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am writing script that returns the size of each disk or partition when called. I am using FDISK -l and parsing the results to get the result I want. When I execute fdisk -l it shows correct results, BUT when I execute the same thing with results to be put in a variable, I get strange... (5 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am using th following to get the percentage and have never used bc before:
percent=$(echo "scale=4;(34117/384000)*100" | bc)
8.884600
percent=$(echo "scale=2;(34117/384000)*100" | bc)
8.00
Why do I get the results of 8.00 instead of 8.88 when using a scale of 2. I only want 2 decimal... (2 Replies)
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9. Solaris
Hi all,
Thanks for any replies and for reading in advance.
We have upgraded one of our database instances to 10g on a Solaris 8 box, anyhow the other day it started trying to ping loads of weird IP addresses that we don't use, since our systems all run on pretty similar IP's. It all behind... (0 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All
I am doing a locate <file_name> on my Redhat 7 System. I am unable to get the output. All the keep getting is:
locate: this is not a vlaid slocate database: /var/lib/locate/slocate.db
What des this mean? Is my system compromised?
Thanks in advance.
KS (13 Replies)
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