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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a directory which contains multiple files with .txt extension, i want to rename all these file to .bak extension using find command, this is what i've tried, please help me to correct this :
find /home/application/test -name '*.txt' -exec rename 's/txt/bak/' {} \;
seems to... (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
Need your help.
I need to write a script for below..
i have two files in directory /home/abc as below:
Watch_20140203_abc.dat
Watchnow_20140203_abc.dat
I have to copy this file from
/home/abc to /home01/home02
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have folder called /input/temp. Inside the folder I have lot of files. I need to find the file of pattern Article_????_test_?????????.txt and replace by format below.
Article_????_?????????.txt
Below is the one which I tried but it doesn't works can you please help us.... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to find a file say IIFT and check its size is zero or not. If its zero then I have to rename anothe file say WWFT , which is in another folder to WWFT$Todaysdate.
I tried below command:
cd dir2 (*File WWFT is in dir2)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
This is probably quite simple for an expert, but I keep getting confused about the best approach, grep, awk, sed.
What I have is a range of files numbered 1 to 100. They go
file1.txt
file2.txt
and so on
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file named Me_thread_spell.txt that I want to split into smaller files. I want it to be split in each place there is a ;;;. For example,
blah blah blah ;;;
blah bhlah hlabl
awasnceuir
asenduhfoijhacseiodnbfxasd;;;
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
In response to a closed thread for degraff63 at
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/108882-using-mv-find-exec.html
the following command might do it as some shells spit it without the "exec bash -c " part:
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I need a help. I have 1130 zip files. Each one of them has files including 1 html file with long file name (includes special charactors, Alphabetic and numbers).
I have copied all 1130 zip files to my linux system and extracted using below command.
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i have a cd of pdf and chm documents that i transfered from my windows xp box. i transfered the files to my linux box (ubuntu hardy). unfortunately, i used to be a windows GUI only user so the use of spaces and "( )" and underscores. now that i use linux, ive been using CLI for using and... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
We are using VNC viewer to login to remote server. Remote server is running with Red Hat linux 3.0. Our problem is, we are unable to rename xterm terminal so is there any way we can rename?
Thanks a lot in advance for your valuable inputs.
Regards,
Bachegowda (0 Replies)
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