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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I wanted to find and replace an email id from entire directory structure on a Linux server. I found that find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/abc@yahoo.com/xyz@gmail.com/g' would do it perfectly.
But my search criteria has extended and now I want to search for a string1 like... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to find all files with a particular extension and then loop some actions. The problem is that if the files have spaces in their names I get end up being each word as a separate result rather than the entire file.
ext=".txt"
out=".rtf"
for i in $( find "$1" -name "*$ext" );... (9 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I'm trying to write a script where:
A file contains more or less 2000 lines. To some of those lines, in a specific position, let's say 89-92 there are spaces. So, this script should find these spaces on specific position and update a value (from 2 to 1) to another position of the... (4 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I need help with using grep and regular expressions....
I have a long list of about 1000 lines of Chinese flashcards. Here's a small excerpt:
意文 yìwén (given name)
貴姓 guìxìng (honorable surname)
貴 guì (honorable)
姓 xìng (one's surname is; to be surnamed; surname)
呢 ne (interrogative... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
All, I have a cleanup script that removes directories and all contents underneath, but I am having issues with directories with spaces.
This is the command I am currently running, how can I get it to work with directories with spaces?
find /path -mindepth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; (29 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following code:
find /usr/local/test5 -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5, $6, $7, $8, $9}'
I have this as output:
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/file1
14 Aug 12 00:00 /usr/local/test5/lastname,
The bolded part is where I run into trouble. The actual... (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I need a script that can search through a set of directories and can locate any file or directory that has a space at the end
Filename(space)
Foldername(space)
I then need to remove that space within the script
Hope someone can help
thanks in advance
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys.
I am trying, to move files found with the find command...
Script runs fine, until it reaches a file that contains spaces...
Here is what i wrote up quickly.
ROOTDIR=/apps/data
SEARCH=$(find /data/HDTMPRestore/home/tmq/ -type f -print | grep Mods/Input/bck | cut -c19-)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello All,
This question is actually for the service console of VMware ESX 3.5 but is relevant to this forum I think. I have been advised to use the following commands:
for i in `find /vmfs/volumes/Test_VMFS/ -name "*.vmx"`
do
echo "$i"
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This is what I need to do
I have a file that has a field with values like this
1111 2222
3333 4444
55555 666
333333333
444444444
I need for my command to out put only those fields that do not have spaces in them. So my output for the above file would be
333333333
444444444
how... (10 Replies)
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