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# 1  
Old 11-01-2007
please help immediately
how can i check if the size of my file is greater than 5MB and if it is so then how can I direct my data to another new file.
the data will be in the form of SQL query
# 2  
Old 11-01-2007
Can you explain the scenario and what you want to redirect?
# 3  
Old 11-01-2007
this will help you to get size of the file:
Code:
ls -l filename | awk '{print $5}'

# 4  
Old 11-01-2007
From man find :
Quote:
-size n[cwbkMG]
File uses n units of space. The following suffixes can be used:

‘b’ for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)

‘c’ for bytes

‘w’ for two-byte words

‘k’ for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)

‘M’ for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)

‘G’ for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)
use find, determine if the file is greater than 5MB and then eventaully copy this file to another, with a different name. HTH, if I got it correctly.
# 5  
Old 11-02-2007
I believe you need to use a "+" in front of the 5M...otherwise it will only look for files exactly 5MB.
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Hi all, I am trying to schedule a one time job using at. First I do a `date` command to capture current date $ date Fri Aug 8 15:53:20 # shows current date $ at -t 16:00 today #schedule command to run at 4pm at> command1 at> <EOT> #after pressing Crtl D job 6 at 2008-08-08 15:53 and... (1 Reply)
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