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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to call xargs, however rm is complaining
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*tests*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Using the bash shell I'm trying to either create a command for the command line or a script that will show netstat info for a given process name. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:$ ps aux |grep catalina |grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
5132
$ netstat -nlp |grep 5132
(Not all processes... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: axiopisty
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to pipe the output from a command into another using xargs but is not getting what I want. Running this commands:
find . -name '33_cr*.rod' | xargs -n1 -t -i cut -f5 {} | sort -k1.3n | uniq | wc -l
give the following output:
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
cut -f5 ./33_cr22.rod
...
9224236... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ivpz
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
Could any one please tell me the option using which we can run multiple commands using xargs
I have list of files, I want to run dos2unix and chmod at one shot on them
I tried google n searched man pages but couldnt really find the solution , please help
right now im doing this
ls... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sunilmenhdiratt
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am trying to use "xargs" command to loop through each file, modify it and overwrite the old file with the modification but with the same file name.
I thought it is easy but I just can't get it to work
I tried the following
I thought {} would give me the current file name, but it... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tiger66
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
From the xargs man page (Solaris):
ls $1 | xargs -I {} -t mv $1/{} $2/{}
This would move all the files in directory $1 to directory $2
Problem 1:
In a shell script if I want to move files in d1 to d2
dir1=~/d1
dir2=~/d2
ls $dir1 | xargs -I {} -t mv $dir1/{} $dir2/{}
does not... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: encrypted
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7. Solaris
Hi,
Under my parent diectory I have directory named "Response" in many of its subfolders. I am interested to see all files with extention .pro in Response Directory. I am giving following command -
find . -name "Response" -type d | xargs -i ls -lrt {}/*.pro
but it is not giving result.
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sanjay1979
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear all,
I have tried the following 2 lines
xargs -t -i -exec grep -i -w {} file_1 >>test < file_2
cat -s file_2| xargs -t -i -exec grep -i -w {} file_1 >> test
They were meant to search for the contents of file_2 in file_1 and write the respective lines of file_1 into file "test" .... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bruno
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I could not understand why the following command does not work
find . -name "foo" | xargs rm -i
but,
find . -name "foo" | xargs rm works perfectly alright. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm using Imagemagick to create thumbnails for a large directory tree. The only thing I can't see is how to get it to write the thumbnails to a "thumbs" subdirectory!
Either of these two commands from the Imagemagick site does most of the job:
find -name '*.jpg' | xargs -n1 sh -c 'convert $0... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: quixote
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