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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to run find command in a script to list out certain files based on a patter. However, when there is no file in the output, the script should exit.
Tried a couple of operators (-n, -z) etc but the script does not work.
I am confused whether a null string is returned... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: danish0909
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'd like to assign the output of the find command to a variable.
What I need is to run the find command, and if it returns zero files, the program exits.
so i'm trying to assign the output of the find command to the $var1 variable....and then if this is less than one, I echo a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: horhif
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3. AIX
Hello All,
I am new to this shell scripting , I wanted to modify the output of my find command such that it does not display the path but only file names , for example I am searching for the files which are modified in the last 24 hours which is
find /usr/monitor/text/ -type f -mtime... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: raokl
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys -
I am trying a small script to tell me if there is a file that exists less than 1k. It should report ERROR, otherwise the check is good.
I wrote this script down, however it never runs in the if/then statement. It always returns the echo ERROR.
MYSIZE=$(find /home/student/dir1... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: DallasT
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am triying to make sure that there exists only one file with the pattern abc* in path /path/. This directory is having many huge files. If there is only one file then I have to take its complete name only to use furter in my script.
I am planning to do like this:
if ; then... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: new_learner
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm using the below command to list files older than 2 hours but it returns redundant output, am I missing something.
# find . -mmin +120 -exec ls -l {} \;
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 13 09:52 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Oct 13 09:52 test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mbak
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to "paste" two files but the result is not aligned.
File1 looks like this:
dog.csv
cat.csv
elephant.csv
cougar.csv
File2 looks like this:
2323
33
444
545545
Then I run a paste command:
paste File1 File2 > result.cnt
Then result.cnt file is created like this:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jplayermx
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
when I do the find command from / , there are a lot of directories that I do not have access to and so I get
"find: cannot open ..."
How can I suppress these messages so only what was found is output.
I was thinking on
find / -name 'searchterm' | grep -v find
but this doesnt work
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: JamesByars
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am confused about the output of find command.
Please see the two find commands below.
When i put "*.c" i get lots of files. But when i put *c only i get only one file.
Any answer??
$ find . -name "*c"
./clarify/cheval/hp_server/rulemanager/rulemansvc... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: shriashishpatil
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I work with AIX 5 and have two basic questions:
1) How do I underline/bold a word in a text output? Any way to do it with echo command?
basic example: echo "FOLDER " >> folder.txt ( I wish the word FOLDER to be underlined and bold).
2) Suppose I have the following pipe delimited... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: clara
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