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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to find all files with file names starting with
alert
and ending with
.log
I mean, the following files should be returnrned
alertTST.log
alertabcdefgh.log
How can i do this ? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kraljic
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to use find to 'find' files older than a file.
The command I have come up with so far is
find . -type f ! -newer filename -print | grep -v filename
If I dont use the -v then the filename is included in the output
is there a better way of formulating this command... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jonnyd
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I was using this find command to search for this string
find /usr/reports -name '*.txt' -type f -exec grep -l tbl_out:add_19 {} \; > /usr/work/junk.txt
My question is, if I want to search another type of file extension besides '*.txt'
how can I include it on the same line to say something... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: NycUnxer
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to search in the log directory only. This log directory exists at mutiple places in my directory tree. I know that to exclude any directory we have option - prune but can we do the just opposite of it.. just check a single directory and exclude the rest.
thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: manojgarg
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I need to find the command ("find" , "grep" etc..) which would give me the full path and file name of all the files in the entire directory tree which contain the line "/bbsrc/doc/". What would be the most efficient way to do it? Thanks a lot for advice -A (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: aoussenko
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a script problem that I am not able to solve due my very limited understanding of unix/awk.
This is the contents of test.sh
awk '{print $1}'
From the prompt if I enter:
./test.sh Hello World
I would expect to see "Hello" but all I get is a blank line. Only then if I enter "Hello... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JasonHamm
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm using this in AIX to find what file contains the value 'batch' in it, in all directories.
find / -type f -exec grep -l batch {} /dev/null \;
My question is, what if I only wanted to search *.sh files, and I wanted to pipe the results to a file called 'batch_find.txt'. How could I code... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: NycUnxer
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have wrote a command to find a and remove all *.apr files ina directory .
Now i got the request as reversed , They want to remove all files except *.apr in the direcory .
Is it possible to do that in a find comand else i have give an explicit find command to all *. files to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am not sure if this question has been answered earlier at the Unix Forums. I tried a search but could not find anything.
So here it goes...
I am looking for a log file under /home.
find /home dklog.log -print
This prints all the directories it traverses while looking for the file and in... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hnhegde
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to use the find command to search and delete files and have the following scenario. How come the file in the current directory is not getting listed out?
/glo71sw/716/devl/userdata/ftpord --> ls -lt XSKU*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 137493 Jul 7 18:30... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: negixx
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