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Hi Pludi,

Apologize for the bumping up the post with double question. Blame my curiosity for that!! Appreciate your efforts to keep the forum systematic.

I will continue eagrly waiting for...

I know this one was answered before in forum below -
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/58210-removing-empty-folders-using-find-command.html

But that one is closed & I have a...

@Methyl,
That is -
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-41 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

I dont think i got files larger then 2 GB. That is the total size of files. My actuall problem is number of files...

Okay..Thanks for confirming..I wasn't so confident on that!

Yes + wont work with. I got thousands of arguments so xargs is the way to go..Actually I am not facing any problem in removal of...

1) Will this delete existing files or that I will have to do manually?
(It would be good if this command can delete as well - otherwise i will have to fire this costly operation - find - once again...

Thanks to you both of you guys : frozentin & TonyFullerMalv. I am feeling bit reluctant (actually lazy) to go for looping & scripting, if we can do it with a single command line...
:(

@frozentin...

Thanks, Radoulov.

Will try this & let you know - if i am stuck up any where..

Thanks, Methyl.

It was good to explore about uname & shell. I just knew about uname -a.

Coming to back on the trace -
All the files under same directory - on the same mound point. None of...

@ cbo0485.

First of all thanks to you...

I didn't get you actually.. Is your code (quoted ) going to process alll the files' list? Do you mean my code will get only one file compressed? m Bit...

I want to compress all the files which are three years older ..I have thousands of files...

1) This doesnt work
find ./ -type f -mtime +1176 -print | xargs -n1 -i tar -cvf {}
Errror
tar:...

Cool, Thanks buddy..!!

First of all thanks to all to provide such valuable inputs & sharing the knowledge...
Well what i did is just waited for overnight... the confusion here was 0- i didnt mind waiting for 8 hours - but...

Hello Techies,

m here with a small issue. Have read out all the relavent threads on unix.com but it was not so good sol. for me.

It's a simple & known issue. I want to move lots of files to...

Well, this seems to be working... Thanks buddy.

However, I am still not clear about how to use {} with Xargs. Can't I do the same thing without {} ?

& what difference "-n1 -i mv {}" will...

I am trying to move file created/modified in 2008 year to <new directory>. But trapped badly in Xargs {}.

Looks like mv is not getting destination file properly. It assumes source file s to be...

I have a csv file, which is > 2 Gigs. I need to BCP that file to Sybase db , but I cant upload that b'caz first row of the file is failing. ( having some errors probably.) I can manually insert the...

Thanks, man..

One surprising thing,

Both of command below returns me the same set of result.


find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f -mtime +0 -ls
find /mrk/ftp/incoming/gbs -type f...

Small query-

I want to do some operation on all the files older then today. Before I do that operation, i want to verify if the command works properly or not.

Surprisingly, the command below...