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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I was hoping some one could help me with a problem I have with a .cgi script I am running in the korn shell.
I have created a web form that user fill out to gather information that I use a .cgi and sed script to translate into a xml file which is further processed by another program.
All is... (6 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
#!/bin/ksh
number1="20"
if
then
number1=$1
fi
number2="1"
while ]
do
if ]
then
print "FizzBuzz"
elif ]
then
print "Fizz"
elif ]
then
... (3 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
Hi I have a few questions. I am trying to copy a file to a directory. I need to copy files that do not end in numbers, for example, into a directory. This is what I tried so far. cp filename directorytowhereIwannacopy but it says it can't copy to a directory. I need to copy many files into one... (2 Replies)
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5. 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)
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6. 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)
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7. 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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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)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone please tell me how to copy a file from a CD that I mounted to a directory in a SCO Unixware system?
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Discussion started by: George26
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, i'm completely new to Unix.
I'm trying to copy my "Pictures" folder, and all the folders under it, to a different folder "Photos".
So say "Pictures" has a sub folder "2".
what happens is "2" is copied to "Photos" like i want it to, but then a sub directory "tmp2" is made which... (3 Replies)
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