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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Using the 'strings' command and piping the result to 'sort' is producing strange results. I get block of lines that begin with asterisks, then a block that begins with some text, then more lines that begin with asterisks. The actual content is correct - lines beginning with asterisks is the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: edstevens
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to remove any files that are older than 2 days from a directory. It deletes those files. Then it comes back with a message it is a directory. What am I doing wrong here?
+ find /mydir -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
rm: /mydir is a directory (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jtamminen
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Disclaimer, I've been a Linux admin for a while but don't frequently setup rsysnc jobs.
Here's the command I'm running on CentOS 5.5, rsync 2.6.8:
rsync -arvz --progress --compress-level=9 /src/ /dest/
/src has 1.5 TB of data, /dest/ is a new destination and started out empy. Oh ya, both... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: DustinT
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a problem with a shell script.
The script should find all .cpp and .h files and list them.
With:
for file in `find $src -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp'
it gives out this:
H:\FileList\A\E\F\G\newCppFile.cpp
H:\FileList\header01.h
H:\FileList\B\nextCppFile.cpp
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: shellBeginner75
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is the code, but the list is not sorted properly (alphabetically)?
<?php
function folderlist(){
$startdir = './';
$ignoredDirectory = '.';
$ignoredDirectory = '..';
if (is_dir($startdir)){
if ($dh = opendir($startdir)){
while (($folder = readdir($dh)) !== false){
if... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrlayance
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am writing script that returns the size of each disk or partition when called. I am using FDISK -l and parsing the results to get the result I want. When I execute fdisk -l it shows correct results, BUT when I execute the same thing with results to be put in a variable, I get strange... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: alirezan
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi guys,
I have the following example data:
A;00:00:19
B;00:01:02
C;00:00:13
D;00:00:16
E;00:02:27
F;00:00:12
G;00:00:21
H;00:00:19
I;00:00:13
J;00:13:22
I run the following sort against it, yet the output is as follows:
sort -t";" +1 -nr example_data.dat
A;00:00:19 (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: miwinter
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am using th following to get the percentage and have never used bc before:
percent=$(echo "scale=4;(34117/384000)*100" | bc)
8.884600
percent=$(echo "scale=2;(34117/384000)*100" | bc)
8.00
Why do I get the results of 8.00 instead of 8.88 when using a scale of 2. I only want 2 decimal... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mariaa33
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9. AIX
Multipart question..
Can anybody explain why this happens :
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fnsw fnusr 1531061 Feb 13 21:45 filename1.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fnsw fnusr 1760706 Feb 10 22:10 filename2.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fnsw fnusr 1525805 Aug 16 2005 filename3.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dbridle
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi--
Ok. I have now found that:
find -x -ls
will do what I need as far as finding all files on a particular volume. Now I need to sort the results by the file's modification date/time.
Is there a way to do that?
Also, I notice that for many files, whereas the man for find says ls is... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: groundlevel
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