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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I use this command :
rsync -av --include=".*" --dry-run "$A_FULL_PATH_S" "$A_FULL_PATH_D"The data comes from the output of a find command.
And no full source directories are in use, only some files.
Source example... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ksailesh1
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3. AIX
I have a bunch of hidden files in a directory in AIX. I would like to move these hidden files as regular files to another directory.
Say i have the following files in directory /x
.test~1234~567
.report~5678~123
.find~9876~576
i would like to move them to directory /y as
test~1234~567... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: umesh.narain
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How to list out only the hidden files from a directory ?
Thanks (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to know how can I remove all the tabs (\t) from a tab delimited file. In my file some of the rows only contain one column and rest are unoccupied but the tabs are there. When I performed some regular expressions to do substitutions like:
%s/\t/\/\/ /ig
all the hidden tabs are converted... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lucky Ali
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi -
I'm having a problem with hidden characters on Linux. When I produced an output from Oracle database, there is a an extra "Hidden Character" included on the output. How can I remove that character? See below:
The extra dollar sign is creating a new line on my .csv output file. I... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jin_
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I usually use ls -al | awk '{sum = sum + $5} END {print sum}' to sum the size of all files in a directory. However this command includes the hidden files.
Is there a command to just add up all the files/sub-directories excluding the hidden files (begins with . and ..)
I wanted to check the... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: lhareigh890
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI All,
I want to take input from user on linux console...but i dont wnt it to be visible.. just like we type password for ssh or scp
Right now I am using "read" to take input from user but it also makes it visible when user type it.
read -ep "Dear User Please enter password : " pass... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: mkashif
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi. I have a script which is deleting files with a particular extension and older than 45 days.The code is:
find <path> -name "<filename_pattern>" -mtime +45 -exec rm {} \;
But the problem is that some important files are also getting deleted.To prevent this I have decide to make a dummy... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pochaw
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