I was preparing a script which will remove all my files from directory which are 24 hour old.I tried some thing like thisfind . ( -name 'log.*' -mtime +1 ) -exec rm {}; but it is throughing error like : missing argument to exec.
View 8 RepliesI have two questions:How do I remove files from Directory A if their name appears in Directory B?How do I move foo.jpg and bar.jpg from Directory C to Directory D if and only if foo.png and bar.png appear in Directory D?I suspect there's probably a bash one-liner for this, but...I can't come up with it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere are millions of files in many directories. Wherenver i try rm * or find or use xargs, they say 'argument list too long' and exit. How can i deleted files in a directory with so many files without deleting the directory itself.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am still a novice with Ubuntu and I am trying to write a shell script which will clean redundant files. I am stuck with one line where I would need a command which will remove all files from directory except some of them. Can anyone please advice how to add such an exception to the rm command? I have searched some bash shell tutorials, however, no joy. Guess I have overlooked something.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter i try to find logfiles follow date/month/year. i want copy this files to another directory with name's directory is time you find(date/month/year).
View 4 Replies View RelatedA Javascript has crept into all my hmtl, php files in my shared hosting account. I have SSH access.How can I use sed to remove that line from all files in a directory recursively ?sed doesnt change the original file.And I need to specify *.php and *.html
View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to create a cronjob that will delete all files within a directory 1 hours after it is created to the folderI found this cron find /path/to/file/* -ctime +1 -exec rm {} ; but it's deleted all files.I want to make an exception, all file should be deleted except one file (letsay file a.zip)
View 16 Replies View RelatedI'm able to use the following to remove the target directory and recursively all of its subdirectories and contents. find '/target/directory/' -type d -name '*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
However, I do not want the target directory to be removed. How can I remove just the files in the target, the subdirectories, and their contents?
how to write a script so that when I use the 'del' command it removes/sends the files / folders to a I specify for example 'dustbin'
View 1 Replies View RelatedI hope you can help. I have a collection of spreadsheets with data that needs to be imported in to SQL. The data has been manually entered although there are portions where data has been copied and pasted from the web.
When converting these sheets to a CSV I get strange characters where it looks as though data has been copied and pasted. Is it possible to write a script (AWK?) to pull out these characters?
I guess the script will need to keep alpha characters, spaces, numerics and commas but nothing else. How easy is this to do?
Thanks y'all for the great script and explanation. This helped a lot in my own project. I thought I'd share the efforts.The project is this: I've got lots of duplicate JPGs from all the family members who've named the same photo with different names. Since md5sum generates a "fingerprint" based on the file contents, not the name, I want to use the md5sum of each jpg to uniquely name each photo and also remove exact duplicates.
It has the following flaws:
0) it doesn't handle certain non-alphanumerics
1) it keeps both photo-shopped and unaltered photos (different md5s)
2) it (currently) doesn't preserve descriptive filenames.
(For me, removal of duplicates is more important than keeping the filenames. I may change that to concatenate the md5 and the filename.)Please note that the commented "rename" command should be used to strip non-aphanumerics from the file names, and the script should be launched with the commented "find" command.
However, the ffmpeg command generates a temporary file blahblah.mpg.tmp of about 1GB per hour of transcoded video.My issue is that I can't seem to delete these files automatically from any bash script.Now from the command line, I can cd to the directory and just rm -f *.tmp and they get deleted. However, from my script, that same command doesn't remove those files. I thought maybe the file was in use, so I put a sleep command in for like an hour before the delete happens, but it still fails. I also put rm -f /mnt/mythtv/*.tmp in a root cronjob and it still doesn't delete the files.
If I just rm *.tmp I do get a prompt about "Are you sure you want to delete this write protected file?". But the -f switch seems to work fine as a normal user from the command line and just delete them.Does anyone have an idea how to troubleshoot this problem? The particular filesystem that the tmp files get generated on is on it's own xfs partition mounted as /mnt/mythtv.
I want to delete all files within a specific folder without actually deleting the folder, what is a good bash command for this?. I found this one but encountered some errors even though I am executing it within the specific folder:
useratdebian:/home/user/folder# find . -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;
[1] 5052
useratdebian:/home/user/folder# find: missing argument to `-exec'
[1]+ Exit 1 find . -type f -exec rm -rf
The command as it appears is:
find . -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;
how to delete only the files contained within the folder called "folder" for example?
I am trying to get the total file size for certain files per directory.I am usingfind `pwd` /DirectoryPath -name '*.dta' -exec ls -l {} ; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' > /users/cergun/My Documents/dtafiles.txtbut this lists all the files in the directoriesI need the total per directory for all dta files.
View 1 Replies View Relatedfind . -type f -name "*" -print0 | xargs -0 --replace=% mv % `pwd`
works fine at moving all files anywhere below the current directory to the current directory.
My question is can it be modified so it only moves all the files up one directory layer? Otherwise I shall have to cd 100 or so times and run it in each directory i want to compress...
I imagine the directory below which the file is stored is in the % somewhere it is just a case of extracting it and applying it to the mv command, yes?
Word Count for all files in a directory
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wanted formated output of all the files under a particular directory. I am trying to use find.Something like find -P ./ -type f -name '*.cpp' -printf "%p "I want all the files with specific extension like .c .cpp .h to be printed out separated by space. One more thing i want is absolute path names instead of relative.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow can I write a script that will go through the files in a directory and print on the screen the name of the files stating if it is a file or directory. The directory is already provided by the user.
View 12 Replies View RelatedWhen I run:make -f mymakefile clean I get:rm -f mybinary *.so.* *.dep *.o mybinary.symand all the above files are removed from the current directory.But I have a directory /src/ where I have all my source files located. The *.o file in this directory are not removed?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write a simple script to list all the files in a directory. The script I wrote was as below where the pdb_files is a directory and all the files which I want to list are in that folder.
Code:
files=`ls -F pdb_files/*THERMO*`
for inFiles in $files
do
echo $inFiles
[Code]....
I once had a script that when run would find the first 800GB of files in a directory (including subdirectories) and write them to a file (ie: ./800gb.sh > manifest.txt).I used this to create manifests of 800GB worth of data from large directories in order to dump to tape (LTO4).I'm sure its gotta be a pretty simple script, but I am not very skilled at writing bash scripts.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI got a directory with files in it like: 2006-07-01.foo2007-08-04.foo I need to update the timestamps on these files using "touch -t 200607010000 2006-07-01.foo" on each file in the directory so I came up with the following one liner:
for i in `ls -1`; do touch -t `ls -1 | sed -n 's%([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})(.*)%1230000%p'` $i; done
My goal was to use sed and get the timestamp for touch and then loop through each file and touch with the timestamp.However the script, not giving me the results I intended. Can anyone chime in on what I am doing wrong?I have been banging away at this for a couple of hours now and am clueless on what it could be. I also tried another variant such as:
for z in $(ls -1 *.foo); do echo $z $(for i in `ls -1 *.foo | sed 's%([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})(.*)%1230000%p'`; do echo "$i"; done); done
I have about 50 files that the script will operate on, they are all located in the same directory.I need a bash script that will operate on all files in a directory. The script needs to add two lines to the beginning of each file based on the file name, and one line to the end of the file.A file named myfile.h should add these two lines to beginning of the file:
Code:
#ifndef MYFILE_H
#define MYFILE_H
[code]....
i was wondering if there's a bash script to check the amount of files in a directory with an IF statement..
View 8 Replies View RelatedHow to list only hidden files in current directory ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a bunch of files that contain a date, then data. When I use join, I get exactly the output I need. But manually joining the first with the second, then that output with the third and so on would take days. I have thousands of files. Can any of you folks help me write a script that would do this?To put it another way, for clarity's sake, here is what I am currently doing
If I were to repeat that 3000 times the final output would be what I need. I know a simple script would do this for me, but I can't figure out how to write it.
Code:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
[Code]....
Alright this works fine to pull the directories/files in the /var/Store/2010/ directory.
But when you click on of the links it tries to http://'serveradress'/$filename
note that $filename in the url is the filename clicked on so the php script is working. but I need it to change to that dir so that you can see the folder/files there and work your way up/down/side wise thru the folder tree to where you need to go. Not try and pop it as a direct url which doesn't work.
I have managed to get it to install the files in the BUILDROOT directory correctly but when I add the directories under the file it seems to try and install the files from root. my rpmmacros is as follows:
Code:
%_topdir /home/rpmbuild
# The directory where buildroots will be created.
%_buildrootdir %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT
[code]...
I want to remove duplicate or multiple similar lines from multiple files. I.e. if I have four files file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt and file4.txt and would like to find and remove similar lines from all these files keeping only one line from these similar lines. I only that uniq can be used to remove similar lines from a sorted file.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have to create a script to identify those users who have un-sanctioned (forbidden) files in their home directory. I tried something like this (this is a try and I need some opinions):
Code: #!/bin/bash
user_belongs() {
if `groups $var1 | grep $var2`
then
return 0 else
return 1
fi
} .....