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1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Hi, everybody!
I have a big problem. I don't understand Unix, but I work as a system administrator, and sometimes I make some data exports and I have to delete old .dmp files, but today I had a mistake, I wrote rm * 909*
This is a part of my folder contents in unix before deleting
drwxrwxr-x 2... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: susan12
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi,
1. When i am deleting file in the linux machine i am getting below error message.
rm text.fil
rm: remove regular file `text.fil'? y
rm: cannot remove `text.fil': Read-only file system
From su also i tried i am getting same error message.
2. Some times the file permissions and user name... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: coconut.ramu
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
In one of my folders i have 10000 log files starting with sqlfile.....
Iam trying to delete the log files alone from the folder using for loop but i am getting an error
ksh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
For loop i used
for i in `ls sqlfile*`... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a folder A which contains files 1,2,3... I also have a file xyz under a diff folder B containg the entries 1,2,3...
I am trying to compare and delete the nonexisting ones from xyz using the below code:
QFILE=/B/xyz
cd A
ls -1 > /tmp/file1
for fname in `cat $QFILE`
do
if ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: swasid
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I am not able to delete few line from long file.
I have a big file which is of 53998 B in size i want to delete lines starting from 32768 to 53998 and collect remaining file in new file.
It is giving exception
sed: command garbled: 32768,$countd
Please find the sample script... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajeshorpu
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi ,
In a particular path the below mentioned three files has been created.
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 0 Jun 5 00:06 -f%*lock.clock
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 151 Jun 5 00:06 -f.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 4 Jun 5 00:06 -f%conn_err.out
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: anupam_jash
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello:
I made this mistake on my tru64 machine, I renamed a file from:
binary.errlog to binary.errlog(B3)
now when im tryign to move or delete the file Im getting:
# rm binary.errlog(B3)
ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
4# mv binary.errlog(B3) log
ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: aladdin
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
All,
I am trying to delete a user created file from specified folder. This folder is using for my Team member (i.e, Public folder). For example,
$ ls -l
total 1336
-rw-rw-r-- 1 g_btha customer 2655 Dec 06 12:35 A_COL_1001
While deleting/moving this file I am getting the following... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: nvkuriseti
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm having problems deleting a file with a special character and I'm hoping that somebody here can help. The file "-osample1.c" will not remove from my directory. Here is an example of what happens. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> ls *sample1*
ls: illegal option -- .
usage: ls... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hart1165
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10. Programming
I have a number of files of the format filename.xfr_mmddyy_%H%M%S which i get in a specified directory daily. Now i want to search in the specified directory & delete the files which are more than 2 days old .So I use a command
find $DIR/backup/* -ctime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;
But after executing... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dharmesht
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