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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
These three finds worked as expected:
$ find . -iname "*.PDF"
$ find . -iname "*.PDF" \( ! -name "*_nobackup.*" \)
$ find . -path "*_nobackup*" -prune -iname "*.PDF"
They all returned the match:
./folder/file.pdf
:b:
This find returned no matches:
$ find . -path "*_nobackup*" -prune... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: wolfv
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a bunch of random character lines like ABCEDFG. I want to find all lines with "A" and then change any "E" to "X" in the same line. ALL lines with "A" will have an "X" somewhere in it. I have tried sed awk and vi editor. I get close, not quite there. I know someone has already solved this... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: nightwatchrenba
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I recursively find all files in a directory and print out the file and first line number of any text blocks that match the below cases?
This would seem to involve find, xargs, *grep, regex, etc.
In summary, I want to find so-called empty "try-catch blocks" that do not contain code... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: lifechamp
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone
Sorry I have to add another sed question. I am searching a log file and need only the first 2 occurances of text which comes after (note the space) "string " and before a ",". I have tried
sed -n 's/.*string \(*\),.*/\1/p' filewith some, but limited success. This gives out all... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: haggismn
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
If I enter (simplified):
find . -printf "%p\n"
then all files in the output are prepended by a "." like
./local/share/test23.log
How can achieve that
a.) the leading "./" is omitted
and/or
b.) the full path to the current directory is inserted (enclosed by brackets and a blank)... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pstein
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
why is this giving me errors?
i type this in: find / -name "something.txt" 2>/dev/null
i get the following error messages:
find: bad option 2
find: path-list predicate-list
:confused: (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: magiling
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7. Solaris
How do I find all "regular" files on solaris(8) that are open for write ( +read as well).
I tried using pfiles, and lsof commands, but not sure how to get exactly what I wanted.
ps -e | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -i pfiles {} 2>/dev/null (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: kchinnam
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have defined an array which holds a couple of elements which are nothing but files names. I want to find the files in a directory for the matching file name(array elements) with less than 1 day old.
When I am trying to execute the code (as below), it gives an error.
Your help in this... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mkbaral
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear friends,
please tell me how to find the files which are existing in the current directory, but it sholud not search in the sub directories..
it is like this,
current directory contains
file1, file2, file3, dir1, dir2
and dir1 conatins
file4, file5
and dir2 contains
file6,... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: swamymns
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
problem String
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
icecream= { smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" ,
smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad" }
aend = {smart vc4 eatr kalu}
output needed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
smart peopleLink "good" LC "happy" , smartpeopleLink "dull" LC "sad"
smart vc4... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: keshav_rk
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