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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am running a UNIX script to get unused files and their sizes from the server. The issue is arising due to the spaces present in the filename/folder names.Due to this the du -k command doesn't work properly.But I need to calculate the size of all files including the ones which have spaces in them.... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: INNSAV1
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2. OS X (Apple)
Hi All,
I have a vexing issue with leading spaces in file names. Basically, we're moving tons of data from our ancient afp file share to Box.com and Box forbids leading spaces in files or folders. The HFS file system seems to be perfectly fine with this, but almost all other Unix file systems... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prometheon123
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a directory with the following file names
01 - abc hyn
02-def
03-ghi.dir
04 - jhu.dir
abc1 kil
def bil
The last two file names abc1 starts with one space and def starts with double space. I want these files in my directory to be renamed as
ABC HYN
DEF
GHI.dir... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi I need to open a file if a condition(for example a if a regular expression) is met. How do i do this ?
open (file) if (some regex)..... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: manutd
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
please somebody tell me what is wrong with this, while the thumbnail grabbing works and encoding works, but what is not working is, mv $i.jpg /var/www/thumbs/ and mv $i.mp4 /var/www/uploads/
#!/bin/bash
# MINT 9 - FFMPEG - QT-FASTSTART - X264 - MP4
DIR=/var/www/tmp
for i in... (9 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have spaces in between file names.
"Material Header.txt"
"Customer Header.txt"
"Vendor Header.txt"
And how can I remove spaces between file names like below
MaterialHeader.txt
CustomerHeader.txt
VendorHeader.txt
Thanks
Srimitta (10 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I found the mimesender multiple attachment emailing shell script in the FAQ of these forums, and I have been able to use it to send multiple files, but only if they don't have spaces in their file name or path.
When I attempt to send a file with spaces in it's name, enclosed... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: rsmorra
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What's the best way to find all files under a directory - including ones with space - in order to apply a command to each of them. For instance I want get a list of files under a directory and generate a checksum for each file.
Here's the csh script:
#!/bin/csh
set files = `find $1... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: same1290
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Just consider there are around 10 lines in a file. Now is it possible to delete the first 2 lines in the file without opening the file. No matter whatever the content of the file is, I just wanna delete the first 2 lines without opening the file. Is that possible? If so, please help me out.... (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gurus -
I got one simple TXT file with long file name with blank spaces in between the words. I am trying to display that full file name, but it breaks while displaying. Could somebody shed some light here?
Script
------
for i in `cat ~\temp\employee.txt`
do
echo $i
done (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Eric_2005
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