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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I would like to ask if there is a way to search for a file inside a .tar.gz file without extracting it? If there is, is there a way to search for that file by date?
Thanks! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: erin00
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi All,
i have a file called rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz, i have to unzip and then uncompress it. but at first while i am trying to unzip this file, it is giving me following error:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bravodba bravodba 7278458 Aug 19 08:26 rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
bash-3.2$ unzip rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
Archive: ... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: lovelysethii
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
i am working on unix - ksh
trying to unzip a .gz file
and when i executed the below, in my command prompt in ksh
gunzip abc.gz
it was throwing the message below:
gunzip: abc.gz: unexpected end of file -
pls advise what is the reason for it..i am pretty sure the .gz file had no issues. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: billpeter3010
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Iam a newbies to Shell scripting. Iam trying to replace the date inside the file to new date. is there anyway that we can just use the pattern to search as "..." I have many files want to replace with the same date, and each file contains different date.
Thanks for your help.
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Daro
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
without using conventional file searching commands like find etc, is it possible to locate a file if i just know that the file that i'm searching for contains a particular text like "Hello world" or something? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindamlive
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix Gurus,
I am new to shell scripting and in the process of learing.
I am trying to find whether a file name has today's date in MMDDYYYY format.
I am using the following code and it doesn't seem like working.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
today=$(date '+%m%d%Y')
echo today: $today
file=`find... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: shankar1dada
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have got a large number of .PDF files that are archived in .RAR & ZIP files in various directories and I would like to search for strings inside the PDF files.
I would think you would need something that can recursively read directories, extract the .RAR/.ZIP file in memory, read the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lewk
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey,
i need to use grep to search a bunch of header files inside a directory to return which file i can find the function i'm searching for in. how do i use wild cards to search through the files? i can only figure out how to search inside the directory, not inside the files that are in the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kylethesir
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I've searched this site and not found this already, so if I missed on my search, sorry.
I need to pass in a variable to a script, where the first three characters of that variable represent a calendar quarter, and the last 2 characters are the year. I.E. Q0105 for Q1, Q0205 for Q2, and... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rediranch
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
While uncompress , gunzip filename.cpio.gz getting the fg. error
gunzip: filename.cpio.gz: unexpected end of file.
Whats the problem?
Size of this .gz file is 660mb .
Thanks, (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Dolly
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