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1. Linux
Hi,
I am trying to run a command that finds all files over x amount of days, issue is one of the directories has spaces within it.
find /files/target directory/*/* -type f -mtime +60 When running the above the usual error message is thrown back
+ find '/files/target\' 'directory/*/*' -type... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Ads89
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
So, I have a directory tree that has many files named thusly:
X_REVY.PDF
I need to find any files that have the same X portion (which can be nearly anything) as any another file (in any directory) but have different Y portions (which can be any number from 1-99).
I then need it to return... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kamezero
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a script that once executed it will search within a directory and copy only the newest directory that has not been copied before to a new location. Kind of like what ROBOCOPY /M does in windows?
The directories are not left in the new location so using a sync action won't... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
Can you please help me print all the executable files of a directory(in this case /home) using grep?
All i know is that this command should do it but it doesnt...
ls -l ~ | grep -..x
it shows me the following mesage
grep: invalid option -- '.'
Χρήση: grep ... ΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑ ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimas13
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am new to shell scripting so i need some help need how to go about with this problem.
I have a directory which contains files in the following format. The files are in a diretory called /incoming/external/data
AA_20100806.dat
AA_20100807.dat
AA_20100808.dat
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need help in writing shell script to accomplish the following.
1.I've one text file which contains list of batch numbers like b1.dat,b2.dat,b3.dat...
2.I've the same files along with other files present in some directory.i.e 1.dat,2.dat,3.dat,4.dat,5.dat... present in some directory.... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to find all the files with a given file name present in the sub directories and execute a script on each file
For example In the directory source , I need to find all the files named test and execute the script run.sh
Can anyone please help me on this (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I was wondering what is the most efficient way to find files in the current directory(that may contain 100,000's files), that meets a certain specified file type and of a certain age.
I have experimented with the find command in unix but it also searches all sub directories. I have... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kewong007
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
I have a directory A, which has some 0 byte files in it.
This directory also has a subdirectory B which also has some 0 byte files in it.
The problem:
I only need to find out the names of the 0 byte files in the directory A.
I'm using the following command
find . -name *.zip... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ramky79
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have written the following simple bash script. It logs onto an FTP site and then CDs into a directory that corresponds to the last business day. So for example the directory I would access today is 20060110 (2006 jan 10).
I am currently taking today's date and subtracting 1, putting this... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: steved
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