10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Forum,
I am using the below command to find files older than x days in a directory excluding subdirectories. From the previous forums I got to know that prune command helps us not to descend in subdirectories. Though I am using it here, not getting the desired result.
cd $dir... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jhilmil
8 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am a newbie in shell scripting. I have to copy a particular sub-directory (data) from a large no. of directories (all in the same folder) and paste them to another directory ( /home/hubble/data ) and then rename all the subdirectories (data) as the name of its parent directory.
please... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: sholay
8 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is it possible for me to include the results from a command in the subject line? What I am looking to do is get the file count and include it into the subject line as well as the list of files in the body.
Example Subject line: Currently 25 files in directory
My Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cd... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ozifer
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I've been trying to run 'ls -1R | wc -l' inside of sub directories to in order to determine how big each folder is.
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read folder
do
cd "$folder" &&
echo "$folder has $(ls -1R | wc -l) files" &&
cd ..
done
or
for... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: NoobProgrammer
3 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
This is a quick one.
I have got a review comment in one of the scripts that i wrote:
"In UNIX script it not advisable to use cd to a directory and then run command."
Is this true?
I was trying to cd to log directory and use some cat or head or ls command.
Many Thanks,
Sam (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: samplify
2 Replies
6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to remove several directories which contains sun-dirs and files inside.
I used the command rm -r <dirname>
But, it always ask "examine file in directory <dirname> yes/no?" line by line.
So, i need to write "y" for every line.
How can i skip this step and remove all directories with... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: ppa108
9 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I cant remember how, i use to know but its been like 2 years since ive used shell can anyone help me? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kprescod4158
7 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys.
I am a complete shell scripting newbie with some syntax and commands understanding. I'm more of a win admin. With that said: I need to write a shell script to monitor a directory '/Mon_Dir' for new occurrences of files with .xx extension. Once a new file is detected in the directory, a... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: krkan
4 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to develop a makefile that spans across directories. For example, let's say i have an upper level directory (main) and about 2 subdirectories. I want my .cpp files and .o files to be in one subdirectory. I want my .a files to be in the other subdirectory. The .a files are made up of the... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: benjie_asu
0 Replies
10. Programming
Can someone please tell me how to modify/add to this code so that it recognizes UNIX command options (all beginning with "-") and executes the command with options?
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv)
{
int i;
system("stty -echo");
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Safia
8 Replies