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1. 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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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello and thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me
I'm trying to learn the find command and thought I was understanding it... Apparently I was wrong. I was doing compound searches and I started getting weird results with the -size test. I was trying to do a search on a 1G file owned by... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: bodisha
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey,
I am writing a script to delete log files that are older than one day (I'm going to run it weekly). Basically, it should work so that it only keeps the current day, but keeping the previous day as well isn't a dealbreaker.
I am running the following line on the files listed below:
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: unaligned
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Am running the command below to search for files that contains a certain string.
grep -il "shutdown" `find . -type f -mtime -1 -print` | grep "^./scripts/active"
How do I get it to do a ls -l on the list of files? I tried doing ls -l `grep -il "shutdown" `find . -type f -mtime -1... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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5. 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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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am using the korn shell on Solaris box.
Why does the following 2 commands return different results?
This command returns no results (I already used this command to create a list of files which I moved to an archive directory)
find ????10??_*.dat -type f -mtime +91
However this... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: stumpy1
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7. Solaris
I'm trying to get a count of all the files in a series of directories on a per directory basis. Directory structure is like (but with many more files):
/dir1/subdir1/file1.txt
/dir1/subdir1/file2.txt
/dir1/subdir2/file1.txt
/dir1/subdir2/file2.txt
/dir2/subdir1/file1.txt... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I execute this line at the command prompt I get a different answer than when I run it in a script? Any ideas on how to resolve? I'm trying to find all files/dir in a directory except files that start with the word file.
Once I get this command to work, I will add the "delete" part to the... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: blt123
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am looking for files of a certian type and logging them. After they are logged they need to be moved to a different directory. HOw can i incorporate that in my current script?
CSV_OUTFILE="somefile.csv"
find . -name W\* -exec printf "%s,%s,OK" {} `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` \; > ${CSV_OUTFILE}
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: pimentelgg
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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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