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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
how to recover the file in unix.
Thanks in advance.:wall: (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all.
I would like to make a script (or two shell scripts) that will do the following.
I need the maximum file name and directory name to be 38 characters long.
As well, if shortening the file name ends up making all of the files in that directory have the same name, then I would like... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: marcozd
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Folder of e-mails in maildir format had been corrupted. Typical file name is 1246281161.6777.m21JH:2,S . The " :2,S prevents " copying to another device. How can I simply remove the last four characters? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: steve900
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
i have a file and i want that after 6th slash "/" in each line of the file the contents gets truncated.
Can anyone tell me how to do that !!
thanks in advance
One more thing how can i change the size of output buffer of console,
as i had very long output and its not... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: glamo_2312
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have files with names like file1.txt.txt.txt.txt and file2.txt.txt.txt.txt.txt............ (random infinite number of .txt exist).
how to truncate (mv) their names to ones with single .txt extension like file1.txt and file1.txt ? In other words, how to extract the filename upto first... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: prvnrk
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to concatenate 2 files, but before concatenation, I would like to strip off the final character from the first file.
The final character is a form feed (ascii 012 / hex 0C) and there will be an unknown number of these characters in the file. It is only the very last one which I want... (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have an application which writes log in to a file. The file size becomes around min of 800 MB a day. So I have written a script which backup the file and truncate the original file. My script is like this
cp X.log /backup/X.log1
> X.log
But the second truncate command... (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have one file which first line is blank and second line has some data.
$cat filename
output:
30-MAY-07
I want to store 30-MAY-07 value in one variable.
for that I wrote
var="`head -2 filename`"
It will give that result but I want to truncate the first line which is blank.
plz help. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rinku
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I need to truncate a large file without deleting and touching it again.
i tried the below commands but no use because of the huge file size
cat <<! > errors
and
echo > errors
Could someone please help.
Thanks,
Sateesh (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kotasateesh
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