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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to write a script to find some files in a directory
Example: if i have files like
2014-02-01_aaaa.txt
2014-02-01_bbbb.txt
2014-02-01_cccc.txt
2014-02-01_dddd.txt and some other files how can i just check to see if there four files exits or not i tried some thing like this... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikatakavi
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2. Ubuntu
dear all,
I have trouble handling the files with the # (ie: #file.txt). I try deleting them several ways, but get failed everytime.
Please let me know how to a.) delete them b.) how to get rid of creation of these files.
thank you very much,
emily (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: emily
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3. Red Hat
i want to remove *.req files from directory
/opt/FFCL8001/oracle/inst/apps/FFCL8001_lhrho/logs/appl/conc/log
i executed command find . -name '*.req' -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
but it is running since hours and free space in /opt is same as old 7.4 GB .
why it is not removing files ? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rehantayyab82
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I'm facinf issue while moving large files using find command.I've a scenario like i've to move one day older files from one directory to anothe directory.I'm using the below command.
find $src_dir -name error -prune -o -type f -mtime +1 -exec mv {} $dest_dir \;
some times... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mail2mura
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm looking to create a script which will find all the files created in the last 24h in a directory starting with a few different letters and send them to the printer. This would be run through the cron each morning to print the last 24 hours files.
I have started with this to find all... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rab
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I'm facing this below error when I move files using find command....Please help out......
$ find /home/aa/ab -mtime +90 -type f -exec mv -f {} /home/aa/ab/ac \;
mv: 0653-405 /home/aa/ab/ac/MP_060520111245.csv and /home/aa/ab/ac/MP_060520111245.csv are identical.
mv: 0653-405... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: HemaV
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
So, I'm back with another, pretty much similar question. I've got a catalogue, with about 60k text files. Every file contains a single line of text with variable number of characters. Here are some examples, which will make my case easier to understand:
Example file 1.
<item id="2506"/><item... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalik
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8. HP-UX
Hi All
IN HPUX 11
How to delete an unwanted "core" file with a single command
which is being generated in different locations of the system
the command should be able to free up the space occupied by all "core" file
which is present in different folders and filesytems in a system
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sidharthmellam
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the command find /apps/qualdb/gpcn/scripts/cab_outbound/archive -name 'z*' -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;
in unix command prompt
for deleting the files in my unix system under the specfied folder. It was succesfull.
But when i running this command inside a shell script name... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jayaram.Nambura
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to find the files and delete all the files except the last file.
I am using find command , I am sending the find output to a file and getting all the lines except the last one and sending it to the remove command . This is not working. can anyone help me out to do it in the find command... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: deepaklanka
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