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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Folks,
Looking for a script, where i can check for the existing of the files in a directory and copying to another.
How can i achieve it in loop for over period of time.
whatever files comes into the folder copied in another without duplicate and should be continuous loop.
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: sadique.manzar
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am newbie to unix scripting, need a help in the doubt i have. It is " when files are copied to a directory using cp command, they are arranged by default according to the file name, is there anyway where the files that are copied be arranged with respect to their size, with using the sort... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am a newbie in shell scripting. I have to copy a particular sub-directory (data) from a large no. of directories (all in the same folder) and paste them to another directory ( /home/hubble/data ) and then rename all the subdirectories (data) as the name of its parent directory.
please... (8 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could someone please tell me if there is a command similar to head or tail that can be used on directories. I want to select a given number of files from a directory and copy them into another directory. But I found out I can't use head as it doesn't (or I don't know how yet!) work on directories.... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Krush187
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a script that first copies all the directories and files from the current directory into a new Directory. I get and error "Cannot copy directory into itself". That's fine. I don't want it to. What I am worried about is when I give this script to my company (they are using a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Fred Goldman
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All
i want to write a script which could copy one file at a time from one directory to another directory.
Scenerio:
Let's say i have 100 file in a dirctory,so i want to copy one file at a time to another directory with a sleep statement in between that of 30 secs.
please help me... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Nikhilindurkar
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7. AIX
Hi guy's, my first post here on the forum :p
I did a quick search here, but did not find a direct hit, so decided to post my question.
I'm taking my first steps into AIX, and right now I'm trying to install some software that I've downloaded as a zip file, and have this extracted into a mounted... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: psyduck
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi UNIX Gurus,
Could please help me out regarding following situation.
I am copying some files from one directory to other directotry using following command.
cp /var/tmp/*date*.gz /var/tmp/user/
Problem:
Once the copy has completed, I need to check whether all the files (including... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: satishkeshetty
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to copy a set of directories along with all sub directories and files from one unix box to another. Any ideas?
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everyone, :)
Could someone PLEASE tell me how to copy some DOS files from a CDROM to a DOS readable directory in UNIX.
I imagine that sounds strange, but that's what I need to do.
I am somewhat familiar with...
Inserting the CDROM
mount /mnt/cdrom
ls /mnt/cdrom
eject /mnt/cdrom... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: greystoke
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