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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Good evening.
because the folder has thousand of files it takes too long and have some trouble to get the largest files and then compress files or delete it, for instance
find . -size +10000000c -exec ls -ld {} \; |sort -k5n | grep -v .gz
The above commad took an hour and i have to cancel... (10 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to find 4 latest files inside one folder having following File Name pattern and store them into 4 different variables and then use for processing in my shell script. File name is fixed length.
1) Each file starts with = ABCJmdmfbsjop letters + 7 Digit Number... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Experts,
1. In unix how to list the largest file in given directory.
The answer will in single line statement.
2. I have Sun solaris live CD .I try to compile sample c program using "CC compiler".But its shows "cc command not found".
Please help on this.
Thanks in advance.... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kkl
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the best way to find the largest files in a directory? I used du -k|sort -rn |less.
I got a results for this. But if I used the following command , I got another result...a different order in the same directory. Why is that?
ls -la |awk '{print $5," ",$9}' sort -rn|less. I saw that... (6 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
How to find the list of 5 largest(size wise) file in current directory?i tried using
ls -l | sort -t " " -r +5 -6 -n | head -5
but this is not giving correct output as ls -l command gives 1 extra line of output that is how many total files are there!so by running the above... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: salman4u
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello all.
i would like to be able to find the names of all files on a remote machine using ssh.
i only want the names of files, not directories
so far i'm stuck at "du -a | sort -n"
also, is it possible to write them to a file on my machine? i know how to write it to a file on that... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: user19190989
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
I have a directory A, which has some 0 byte files in it.
This directory also has a subdirectory B which also has some 0 byte files in it.
The problem:
I only need to find out the names of the 0 byte files in the directory A.
I'm using the following command
find . -name *.zip... (6 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to come up with a way of finding largest directories in a filesystem (let's say filesystems is running ot of space and I need to find what is consuming all the space). If a directory is a single filesystem, then it's easy, I just run "du -sk *| sort -nr". But the problem is, if some... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: GKnight
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am unable to see all files in a current directory when use "ls -lrt" command
it is giving error message as below ( I think this current directory is having about 500 files)
<CONTROL /home/ckanth/sri>ls -lrt
UX:ls: ERROR: Out of memory: Insufficient or invalid memory
But when i... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: srikanthus2002
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