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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a code that can move and archve all the files in a directory except the latest file based on file pattern provided in a controlfile.
The filename is in the form of pattern. So basically we find the all the files of the pattern provided and archive all of them, leaving one latest file.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Saanvi1
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Given a directory containing say a few thousand files,
please output a list of all the names of the files in the directory that are exactly the same, i.e. have the same contents.
func(a_directory_name) output -> {“matches”: , ... ]}
e.g. func(“/home/my/files”) where the directory... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: anuragpgtgerman
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm sure this is by design, but using something like
for f in dir/*
do echo $f
done
produces unexpected (to me) results if run against an empty directory. I'd have expected it to not execute the loop, but it actually calls it with f set to 'dir/*'.
Now I know that I'm trying to protect... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: spr00t
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to look if there is any file inside a specific directory which was modified before 2 days.
I wrote the find command, but the problem is there is one directory and that is a random directory generated by unix, so not sure on how to code for that on the find command.
find... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am looking for a command to change directory in FTP server with wildcard specified. Basically this is what i am trying.
localserver# ftp remoteserver
ftp> ls
41000_42000
42000_43000
ftp> cd 41*
550 CWD failed. '41*' : no such file or directory.
Could anyone please let me know... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: thavamaniraja
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to find a particular patter in multiple UNIX files (also contain system files,hidden files and normal files)
i am now using
CMD: egrep -ali 'pattern' *
i am not getting the required result, i just need files path and finename
Naveen (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Naveen_5960
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have the following snippet to concatenate about a hundred csv-files:
for file in *csv; do cat $file >> newfile; done
This line works, but before I was experimenting with the following line, which is more intuitive and is a tad more robust:
for file in *.csv; do cat $file >> newfile; done
Can... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a directory with possibly around 800,000 files in it.
What is the fastest way to list file(s) in this directory with a wildcard.
for example would
ls -1 *.abcdefg.Z
or
find . -name "*.abcdefg.Z"
be the fastest way to find all of the files that end with .abcdefg.Z... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jerardfjay
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following requirement.
PATHA =/opr/itr/
PATHB=/etc/data/
FILENAME=*abc*
file name is wild carded as there could be many files with name abc anywhere
I tried mv $PATHA/$FILENAME $PATHB
and I got a error that /etc/data/ can not be created
Could any one please help.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: onlyjayaram
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days...
The structure of the paths are like this:
/home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/
/home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Neko
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