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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to find out whether there are any Unix utilities that compares folders, files and contents within the file and provides a comprehensive report. The comparison can be against base version of a folder and file with content. Can you please let me know of such a utility?
Thanks,... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sripathi_ks
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I ask a question not related to original question. I have this below command running on a directory which contains thousands of files. This command runs for 5 minutes. Any files received in folder1 during the execution of command is getting moved, even though that file is just received and it's... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Super123
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3. AIX
Hello everyone, I need to validate the file format for the UTF-8 standard. I know that "isutf8"utility is a part of "moreutils" pkg, I was able to find this package for the Linux but my environment in the AIX 6.1.
I would be greatly appreciate your suggestion to my search. I am not familiar with... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nadya Chipova
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I'm a recent convert to UNIX and I'm attempting to understand exactly how the make utility is working under the hood.
Now, I understand that each rule has a target, dependencies, and update command, but the thing I'm confused about is exactly how the utility is determining when to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kramer_102
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to zip/compress a data file and send to a vendor. The vendor does have only unzip utility and can accept only .ZIP files. I do not have zip utility in my server.
How do I zip/compress the file so that it can be deflated using unzip command ? I tried gzip & compress commands, but... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sabari Nath S
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6. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I just found and installed David Moore's libiptcdata with its iptc command-line utility. It's about the latter that my question is based.
The usage syntax is : iptc ...
where -m requires an IPTC field name, and -v is the value to assign or modify in that field. This value is a string bounded... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SilversleevesX
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi folks,
I want to select all files older than 13 days from a specified directory
for that i used
find /home/amar -name '*.*' -mtime 13
but it gives me all the files from subdirectories also, I dont want that
I want files only from /home/amar and not from /home/amar/abc/..
which... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: amarnath
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
My System Admin. just switched me from KSH to BASH and something happened to my "nedit" utility!
Does anyone know how to reactivate nedit by anychance?
Thanks very much!
BobK (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobk544
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to write a script using the 'find' command and it's -exec option to run a compound command against the files found.
Example:
find . -name "*.conf" -exec cat {} | grep "#" > /tmp/comments.list \;
Of course the above doesn't work. So I experimented for a bit to see if there was... (6 Replies)
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10. Programming
I need to modify my version of find in unix and get it to create and use two POSIX threads to carry out concurrent finding operations.
How do i get about doing this>?
If anyone could help me it would be much appreciated.
Thanx
Mariuca (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mariuca
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