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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
trying to add a date stamp to the name of a file with sed. can't seem to comment out the date command so that sed does not only see it as a literal text string
this is what I'm trying
ls file.txt | sed 's/file.txt/file\/`date`\/.txt/g'but it's giving this
file/`date`/.txtlooking for something... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
Please see our current script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
if (egrep "This string is found in the log" /a01/bpm.log)
then
mailx -s "Error from log" me@email.com, him@email.com </a01/bpm.log
fi
To the above existing script, we need to add the following change:
1) After finding the string,... (7 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I use "touch -t xxxxxxxx" command to set date/time stamp of a file. My requirement is to read the date/time stamp of a file and apply it to another file.
Is there anyway to do it simple instead of manually taking date/stamp of first file?
TIA
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to alter a file.
I'm using sed then passing output to temp file
then using touch -r to maintain the date but the permissions do not get preserved
How can I sed a file and maintain date and permissions
currently
it's preserving the date but the permissions revert back to the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: andyatit
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the below copy command, to copy the file sbn to sbn1,
cp sbn sbn1
but its changing the date stamp of file sbn1, but i dont want to change the date stamp of sbn1.
Could you please help me out in this. (3 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everyone,
I want to delete some files in a path based on the time stamp of the file that is i want to delete the file once in a month.
Can any one help me on this?
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to zip the list of files using from date Stamp to end date Stamp, How can I filter and make FromDate_EndDate.gzip?
any idea? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: redlotus72
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Gurus,
I'm trying to move a number of files from one directory to another directory with a new date stamp. This is my script:
#! /bin/csh
Today_Date=`date +%Y%M%D`
mv /usr/TRS/data/TS* /usr/TRS/backup/TS*.${Today_Date}
when i run the script i'm getting the following errors:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
can any one tell me how to achieve this...I will input the path and file name and it should rename it to current date and time...
this is what I tried...
#! /usr/bin/sh
set -x
cd /info_stg/vul/Scripts
TODAY_DATE_TIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have to capture the creation date and time stamp for a file. The ls command doesn't list all the required information. I need year, month, day, hour, minute and second.
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