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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I prevent find from outputting the directory name /home/xxxxxxxx/Backup/.system (which isn't even "other writable"?
I am trying to search for files that are "world writable" on a shared web host using the find statement, and I want to prevent find from creating an error (because the of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: nixie
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I'm trying to write a shell script which finds all the .zip files in a given directory then lists them on the screen and prompts the user to select one by entering a number e.g.
The available files are:
1. HaveANiceDay.zip
2. LinuxHelp.zip
3. Arrays.zip
Please enter the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: zX TheRipper Xz
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to get a list of directories with "2012" as one of the sub-directories (ex. ./TRAN/U214OU/IN/2012/03/01). I tried using find like this "find . -name 2012 -type d > list.out" but it won't write to file. What am I doing wrong or is there a better way to do this? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: knotfinley
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings,
I need to find few patterns related to password (pwsd, pwd, password etc) in a directory includig sub -directories.
I need to redirect the output of find (in combination with grep) to a file which will be later used to verify the files.
OS is Sun Solaris 5.10.
The out put file format... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rajpreet1985
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5. Red Hat
I have a file, ENV.doc somewhere in my home directory. I want to know where the file is located in my sub directories using FIND. But, I want to display only the relative path along with the file name.
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Discussion started by: ashok.g
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I wanna format the output in find to be like this :
NUM SIZE TYPE NAME
1 942080 DIR ./a/b/CaChE.xyz
2 888832 FIC ./a/b/core.1234
3 389120 FIC ./a/b/core.12
4 229376 FIC ./xxx/xyz.bak.cache
I don't know if its possible.
For... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: naminator
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all, why does one version of this command work but not the other?
- This file already exists with 644 mod permissions
- I am logged in as d269836, no su rights.
- Box is 'SunOS' running bash I think; but runs ksh scripts OK.
This one works:
find /users/d269836 -type f -name "*.txt"... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dan-e
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Below script complains about remove, because the find that pipes into it has no results. It's okay operationally, but a bad error message.
I would like to first check whether find had any output, and only if it had output do the rm with xargs.
How can I check whether find had output?
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tphyahoo
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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
I have a find command that finds all files in a folder older than 6 days
i.e
find . -name "hourly.*" -mtime + 6
This gives me an output
/oralogs/.snapshot/hourly.0
/oralogs/.snapshot/hourly.1
/oralogs/.snapshot/hourly.2
I would like the output to be
hourly.0
hourly.1... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: NeerajSingh
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