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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm writing a Perl script which has its 1st step as to copy files from one directory to another directory. The Source directory has got files with extension, without extension, directories etc. But I want to copy ONLY files with no extension. The files with extensions and directories should not get... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
GetName()
{
if
then
echo " Please enter the name: "
read Name
tempvar=0
while read line
do
if
then
tempvar=`expr $tempvar + 1`
echo $tempvar
... (10 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I have to write a shell script which copy files from one folder to another.
When I try to do it directly from command prompt
cp filename.dat /outgoing/filename.dat
its working fine.
But when I put the same command inside a shell script say test.sh its not getting copied. and when I check $?... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to figure out a way to script copying specific files from one dir structure to another.
I have a dir structure like this:
dira/author 1/book 1/file a.epub
/book 2/file b.epub
/author 2/book 1/file c.epub
/author 3/book 1/file d.epub
/book 2/file... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to copy the log file dynamically and that should run in loop , which means it should pick what ever the latest file is updated in that directory.
I am able to display the list and copy to directly but i have no idea on how to pick the dynamically updated files.
when i use this code, i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: johninweb
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
I have one curious case. There are list of following files placed in one directory such as... And updated each month.
files.JAN09.csv files.FEB09.csv files.MAR09.csv .....
Now, I need to move a specific files; i.e,
For this month, I need to move only OCT09, NOV09, DEC09,... (1 Reply)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone,
I am using mac os x 10.6, and I just copied over a project from a machine with 10.5... And I noticed my ls color is very funky in this directory... I found that my permissions are all messed up, and am wondering if there is a way to recursively fix permissions?
This is how they... (3 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I am userB and have a dir
/temp1
This dir is owned by me.
How do I recursively copy files from another users's dir userA?
I need to preserve the original user who created files, original group information, original create date, mod date etc.
I tried
cp -pr /home/userA/* .
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hangman2
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm new to shell scripting so I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong.
The script I'm trying to do saves all the files (*.c) on the current dir to a list and, one by one, copies them to a new one called Backup. The thing is, if there are already other versions of the files I'm... (6 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i have a script
compareFiles()
{
find /tmp/Satya -type f | \
while read filename1
do
echo "----------------------------------------$filename1"
find /tmp/Satya -type f | \
while read filename2
do
if diff $filename1 $filename2
then
echo "Both files... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Satyak
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