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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a directory that has numerous files in it, and there is two which are named "filerec_ddmmyyHH24MMSS" by the time they are created so "filerec_010615012250" was created at 01:22:50 on 1st June 2015.
I need to find the most recently created of those 2 files and get the contents of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: finn
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Please help.
I want to read a file line by line (only 1 column) and print all corresponding rows from a second file (2 columns) . Only first column of second file has to be matched with only column of first file. Order of lines in output doesn't matter.
Simplified example
Input 1
A
B... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie83
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
Need help for the following scenario.
I am having two directories /tmp/a and /tmp/b. /tmp/a again has subdirectories /tmp/a/aa and /tmp/a/ab.
I want to run a script from /tmp/b to search for a file user.lst in the folders /tmp/a/aa and /tmp/a/ab, if available, i want to make a file in... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sudeep.id
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Using grep command, i want to find the pattern of text in all directories and sub-directories.
e.g: if i want to search for a pattern named "parmeter", i used the command
grep -i "param" ../*
is this correct? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vinothrajan55
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
How do I sort the output of find to provide a listing of files from oldest to newest?
For example, if I do a find /tmp -type f -print I want the output to be sorted in the order of the oldest to the newest file.
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
Under my root directory there are many sub-directories which contains log file for every day of running.
How can I find , in one command only, the recent log file in each sub-directory?
For example, If I run the following:
find . -name "exp_prod_*_*_yes_*_.log" -exec ls -ltr {} \;... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: nir_s
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having problems figuring out the process to find directories that DO NOT contain a certain file. I have a mp3 collection that all the album art is name "folder.jpg". Not all the albums have images. I need a way to find the albums/directories that do not contain "folder.jpg". I can find the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: subsonic
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
for x in `find /vmfs/volumes/v01tstn01a01/ -type d`; do find $x -name '*.vmx' > /dev/null || echo $x; done;
The goal of this is to find the subdirectories that do NOT contain a file with the extension of .vmx
Any help would be great! (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: hodnov
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am somehow stumped with this ting.
'Find' will sure show me.. but I want only thepath of all the occurences of the file in any of the sub-dirs..
Any help will be sincerely appreciated.
thanx! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: pranavagarwal
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10. Programming
Hi,
what is the command in unix to find a file abc.c in a directory which had n number of sub-directories.
thanx (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jazz
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12-06-2013
it's better to get suggestions, that I can learn something new and very useful 
