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1. Homework & Coursework Questions
First month learning about the Linux terminal and it has been a challenge yet fun so far. We're learning by using a gameshell. I'm trying to display a certain line ( only allowed 1 command ) from a file only using the head or tail. I'm pretty about this answer:
head -23 history.txt | tail -1... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: forzatekk
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Team,
Can anyone help me here:
I have to access server logs via putty and these logs file is a trailing file (continously updating) with ERROR and WARNINGS... I need to know if I can pull this trailing file to a local drive so that I can do some higlighting on some keywords through Notepad... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: jitensetia
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to read a live log file line by line and considering those line which are newly added to file
Below code I am using, which read line but as soon as it read new line from log file its starts processing from very first line of file.
tail -F /logs/COMMON-ERROR.log | while read... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ketanraut
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi does anyone know how to create a file using the tail command? My book has this file I need to create and it says to use the tail command and that it is possible but I have no idea. Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: drew211
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am fairly new to Linux in general and I am trying to use SED to make some replacements in a file. Below is sample of what the file is like.
<Grouping id="024"><Source>ABC</Source><GroupingKey>000000000816</GroupingKey></Grouping><Grouping... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: runforfun7
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to look if there is any file inside a specific directory which was modified before 2 days.
I wrote the find command, but the problem is there is one directory and that is a random directory generated by unix, so not sure on how to code for that on the find command.
find... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: srini0603
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
The following command works fine in my cshell script:
set Deliverables = `find . -name "eliverables" -print`
The following command does not work:
set LASFiles = `find . -name "*." -print`
In the first example, when tested in an if statement, the script will continue whether a... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: phudgens
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8. Linux
I have only been working with Linux for a few years now so bear with my noob question. I was wondering if there is a way to tail the most recent file that has a file name like 'scrubsncoa%'. There will be at least 2 files in the directory that start with 'scrubsncoa' and a few other different... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: RyanD
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have found a interesting thing about tail command:
when I tried to use 'tail -1 *' to look at every file with the current derectory, I only got one line of result of one file.
But if I use 'head -1 *', I would get multiple lines.
Is there a way to do get multiple lines with 'tail -1 *'... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: whatisthis
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days...
The structure of the paths are like this:
/home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/
/home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Neko
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