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using OS X and the Terminal, I'd like to find all locked files in a specified directory, unlock them, and print a list of those files that were unlocked

how can I do this?

I'm familiar with...

great, thanks!!!

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find . -ls | awk '{print $3,$5,$6,$11}' | grep "^d" | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}'
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awesome, thanks for the quick response! that's pretty darn close to what i was wanting...

it seems to not...

i'm playing around with "ls" and "find" and am trying to get a print out of directories, with full path, (recursive) and their ownership.... without files or package contents (Mac .pkg or .mpkg...

while [ ! -s *.xml ]
do
printf "."
done
echo "found it "


that seemed to have worked... i used the above.
thanks!

I'm attempting to write a pretty simple script. It opens a Filemaker file successfully. That Filemaker file takes around 30-90 seconds to finish. When it's done, it writes a few .xml files into the...

thanks zaxxon! that worked.

I have a url that I need to get using wget. This url string needs to contain two values referring to today's date and a date 3 months from now. I have it mostly finished, I think, but am having...

thanks guys. i got it working.

var returns nothing... exactly this:


var =


if i set var = "test" then it returns "test" but it doesn't return the function if set to that. this seems so trivial but i appreciate your help!

using apple OS X... the uptime line works by itself in the terminal. when i add it to the if-then script and call the script from the terminal it doesn't work. i'm guessing it has something to do...

sorry but it doesn't work as expected. cut returns "days"

removing the middle part to return the value i'm looking for still doesn't work either:

if test `uptime | cut -d "," -f 1 | cut -d "...

i'm trying to write a script that will check my os x box for uptime and autorestart gracefully if the uptime is greater than a certain number of days.

thus far i have this:

if uptime | cut -d...