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Hi,

I have a script that can only handLE limited number of input files.

I need to be able to write a command (or a script) that:

1> copies N number of files from one directory (A) to...

Dear Gurus,
I have an application that sends me thousands of small files.
I need to write a script that sleeps for some time untile enough files have arrived then concatenate (n) files into 1 big...

I found that when I use -f alone grep displays all the input file and that -wf works well.

Thanks for your help.

I have a program that displays many messages on stdout.
I have another file that contain error messages only - Each line is a separate message. (msgs.txt)

I am trying to show only the errors and...

Thanks much guys :)

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I have a C++ program that generates a lot of log information on the console, I need this output (printed using printf function) to go to a file since I will use crontab to schedule the job.

I...

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I have a directory that is used to store files generated by another application. Each file is huge and can take some time to produce.
I am writing a shell script to check the names and dates of...

Hi Guys,

This seams to have solved the problem:

print "$f" "$typ1"

It was a quotation problem...

Thanks for your help :)

Hi,
Thanks for your reply

1. Yes, I should include both variables in 1 print line.
2. I get the file names correct - The content of typ1 is I guess the one that is causing the problem...
3. The...

The script below is supposed to list file and folder names and list the type besides each - It has no practical value - I am just trying to learn KSH (so far sounds like a bad idea!)

Expected...

Thanks for your help guys.

As per google's inquiry about the context, it appeared in a ksh script that goes through files and directories and does operations on them, it looked like this:

for...

Hi
I have 2 questions:

Q1 - What does
${1:+$1/}*
mean? I guess it lists all files in current directory - Could any one explain how this expression works?

Q2 - I am trying to list...

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Is mv (move) command quicker than cp (copy command)?

I have large files and I want to know if mv actually copy the data to a new file then deletes the old or whether it just alters...

Hi,
I have 10s of small files that need to be processed by the same program every day. The files are large.

I prefer to logicall reference all of these files as a single file so Instead of doing...

Thanks.

Hi,
In some versions of UNIX find works with -iname so that you can find files regardles of the case.
In Solaris this is not working - Anys suggestions?

Also, how can I list directory names only...

I am trying to list file names that contains a give string using this command:
$ find . -name "*" -maxdepth 1 -exec grep "*mystring*" {} \;

I get lots of messages like the ones below:

grep:...

Hi,
I need a command that would let ls show number of lines in each file rather than file size in KBs.

I tried using wc -l as a source of input to ls but I found a problem cutting the file name...

Hi There,
That worked - Thanks.

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I have a list of file names generated from a find command.
The list does not show complete file information.
I would like to do this:

generate the list of file names
pass each file name...

Thank you much. I'll give it a try.

Hi,
When I logon to UNIX I go to the root directory. I don't have an assigned user directory.
I need to get to my .profile so that I can change things like command prompt.

How do I do this? By...

Thanks much.

Hi
I am using SUN/Solaris 9 and I was told that some unix versions have 2GB size limit.
Does this applies to SUN/Solaris 9?

Thanks.

Thanks guys.