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Hi rdcwayx,
ls POT* > temp1
grep -l "ABC" POT* > temp2
diff temp1 temp2 |awk '/^</ {print $2}'the above code worked. If only I could have it search the files that were created for the day, that...

Hi rdcwayx,

I tried your command and it gave me a syntax error message. I typed to the commands exactly as you have given them, and I checked it twice for any typo error.



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I tried the code above but it did not list filenames as intended instead it output the contents of all the files that did not have the search word.

Thanks vbe, that command worked. Now, how do I find out which of those files does not contain the search word. I just want to display the file names.

I have been trying the grep command with the...

Thanks Franklin52

The problem is that it searches all the files that begin with POT and there are hundreds. I'm only interested in files that were created for the day.

Hi Everyone,

Someone please tell me how to use grep with the -f option.

I need to search for a particular word and display the line that has that word. I need to do this on multiple files so I...

Thanks guys,

I tried alister's suggestion and it works as I want it to, so I'm going with that.

Thank you both for your time, much appreciated.

Thank you gaurav1086,

The script below may help explain what I have in mind.


if grep -e rlh-1 chkstat.txt | awk '{print $4}' == "$ALIVE"
then
> /dev/null
else
echo "RLH -1...

Hi Everyone,

Can someone please show me how to create a script that will search a text file for changes.

For example below is a sample of how the text file would look like,

RLH rlh-1 ...

Thanks guys, it turns out that the files are now created with 644 permission, so I don't need to chmod theirs permission anymore.

Will try out your suggestions when the need arise.

Thank you...

Hi scottn,

when I ran the script below

find /home/files/server2/MYFILES -newer /home/files/timestamp -name CDMYFILES* | grep -v ARCHIVE | xargs -I{} ksh -c "mv {} /home/files/movefiles; chmod...

Thank you so much scottn. The command worked perfectly.

Can you please help me with one more thing, I need to chmod the moved files with 644. I know it can be done with the -exec command but I...

Hi everyone,

I need help with the find command. I currently have a script which finds and moves files of a certain name and timestamp.

The problem is that each of those sub directories also...

Hi ghostdog74,

Thank you for your suggestion.

But when I ran your code

for i in {1..99999}; do printf "%.6d\n" $i; done > base.txt
it returned the following error

printf: {1..99999}:...

Hi everyone,

I need help in creating a script that would check if the file sequence is in order in a particular directory. These are log files that are generated throughout the day.

Example of...

Thanks guys. fpmurphy your script worked like a charm, though I'm still trying to figure out how it did it.

If you guys can explain how the scripts work, I would be much obliged.

Thank you so...

Hi fpmurphy, thanks for your reply. I'm new to the unix environment and I dont entirely understand your code.

Perhaps you could explain to me how your code works and how I could use it to format...

Hi guys,

I need help with formatting the output of a file. Below is the script I use to generate a file called output.xls.

DAY=`TZ=MYT+16 date '+%b'`
DAY1=`TZ=MYT+16 date '+%e'`
ls -ltr...

Hi guys,

First of all I would like to apologize for not replying to your posts, I have been away on holiday then went for a training session.

cfajohnson, I tried your script and it listed all...

Thank you matrixmadhan & cfajohnson, I wish I could create scripts as good as you guys but unfortunately I have started using the unix enviroment only recently, hence I cant make heads or tails out...

Hi everyone,

I'm stuck with this scenario where our system creates files every night and puts them in several folders according from whom it came from.

I have managed to create a script which...

Thank you jimbalaya for your suggestion but unfortunately it did not work. I was prompting for the password.

Anyway I have managed to a telnet script and run the grep command then exit...

Greetings everyone,

I am new to the unix environment and I need help with my question below.

I need to monitor certain critical processes on several servers and we have scripts that will grep...