I've got a text file with a list of .gz files, these .gz files are in various sub directories of one parent directory and I've hacked this little script together to copy them from their current location to a new one and spit out any it can't find to "/home/user/not_found" but for the life of me can't get it to run properly!
The shell script as it currently looks:
Code:
Through various Windows reinstalls and switches within Linux distros, I have a massive amount of duplication within my music archive (on the order of 7+ dupes of each file). Now, I found a lovely program called "fdupes" and was able to build a list of all the duplicate files, and I'm trying to use "xargs" to remove then. However, when I try and run the command "xargs -0 --arg-file="dupes.txt" rm" or "xargs -0 rm < "dupes.txt"" it give me the following error: "xargs: argument line too long".
how perhaps a different way of accomplishing the same thing?
I've got a text file listing 1823 files that need to be copied from their current locations, i.e.To another folder, any idea how I should do this?
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Also, I've tried cat > testfile1.txt (text)
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Code:
# DRCP Section. To scp newly created archives to a remote system
if [ "$DRCP" = "yes" ]
[code]...
I'm sure I've done this before and am having a brain fart.
I have run into this a couple of time this last month:
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I can echo the file using:
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cat file1.txt
15 this is a sentence containing various words and spaces
34 this is a another sentence containing various words and spaces
cat file2.txt
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I would like to join these 2 files. The result should look as follows :
cat joinedfile.txt
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6 this is sentence2file2
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34 this is a another sentence containing various words and spaces
54 this is sentence3file2
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#!/bin/bash
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Code:
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do
[code]....
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