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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I wrote a shell script program that supposed to delete any directories and its files that begin with the same character string . The program is designed to delete directories and its files that are one day old or less and only the directories that begin with the same character string. The problem... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to make my script as simple as a possible but, I am not sure if the way I am approaching is necessarily the most efficient or effective it can be. What I am mainly trying to fix is a for loop to remove a string from the specified files and within this loop I am trying to copy the lines... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following that I'd like to do:
1. I have split a file into separate files that I placed into the /tmp directory. These files are named F1 F2 F3 F4.
2. In addition, I have several directories which are alphabetized as dira dirb dirc dird.
3. I'd like to be able to copy F1 F2 F3 F4... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to find and list the last 5 days files in that exact name with "MIM" and copy to another directory.
please help me in this there is around 30000 files
Thanks
Murali (7 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I'm trying to copy all files within a specified directory to another location based on a find filter of mtime -1 (Solaris OS). The issue that I'm having is that in the destination directory, I want to retain the source directory structure while copying over only the files that have... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to move the files in a dir to different dirs based on their file names.
Ex: i have 4 different files with name -
CTS_NONE_10476031_MRL_PFT20081215a.txt
CTS_NONE_10633009_MRL_PFT20091020a.txt
CTS_NONE_10345673_MRL_PFT20081215a.txt
CTS_NONE_10872456_MRL_PFT20091020a.txt
and the 1st... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to move the files in a dir to different dirs based on their file names.
Ex: i have 4 different files with name -
CTS_NONE_10476031_MRL_PFT20081215a.txt
CTS_NONE_10633009_MRL_PFT20091020a.txt
CTS_NONE_10345673_MRL_PFT20081215a.txt
CTS_NONE_10872456_MRL_PFT20091020a.txt
and the 1st... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a simple backup script, but I cannot figure out how to remove directories that are found in a list. For example:
DONT_COPY="
.adobe/
.bin/google-earth
"
tar -zcvf - * --exclude=$DONT_COPY | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > COPIED
Note that... (4 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text list of about 3,000 file names (image files), which exist on a server and that I want to copy over to another location. I understand the Unix cp code, but what's the string to have it copy multiple files based on an external list?
Many thanks! (4 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have hundreds of directories that have to be renamed. the directory structure is fairly uniform which makes the scripting a little simpler.
suppose i have many directories like this */*/*/*abc* (in other words i have similar directory names 3 dirs deep that all contain the pattern abc in... (8 Replies)
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