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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script doing backup to synology server, the script create new folder each day with the date as being folder name i.e. 2018-07-30. Just before creating the new folder I want the script to find the oldest folder from the list and delete it including its content.
for example... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ALL,
How can I test a given file name exists and if it is a named pipe file in shell script ?
Thanks............ (2 Replies)
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3. Solaris
I accidentally saved a txt file in vi with the name ":q!".
no amount of regex tomfoolery I can think of will allow me to remove the file.
anyone got any ideas? (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, There is a file by name '*' in a hp-ux box. How can i delete the same?
-rw-r--r-- 1 wleadm dba 1531 Jul 24 08:49 *
need to delete this file named * without deleting any other file. Please help. (9 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a ksh93 script I use that processes a file list in the order that they exist in the list. I would like to speed up processing of the list by having multiple processes handle it at once. I was thinking that perhaps a good way to handle this would be to write the list to a named pipe and some... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do you delete a file named "\"....
please help as i am unable to delete it..
Thanks & Regards
Harish (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to pipe (redirect ? - what is the right term?) the output of my script to a file named with the current date.
If I run this at a command prompt:
date +'%Y%m%d"
...it returns "20110429"
OK, that's good... so I try:
./script.sh > "'date +%Y%m%d'.csv"
I get a file... (1 Reply)
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8. Red Hat
When i 'ls' the bin folder, there was "~" tilde in the list.
How to delete this safely as this symbol represents home folder.
Kindly help. (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to copy the contents of a named pipe to a file. I have tried using:
cat pipe.p >> transcript.log
but I have been unsuccessful, any ideas? (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've been trying in vain to delete a file that I accidentally created. The name of the file is -e
of course, everything I attempt to do with the rm command (rm -i * for example) comes back with:
rm: illegal option -- e
usage: rm file ...
Any suggestions on what I can do to remove this... (3 Replies)
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