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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I think I must be missing something obvious but I have a file containing a list of files and paths, some with wildcard, others with spaces. e.g.
/this/is/a/file
/this/is/a/directory/
/this/is/a/collection/*
/this/has spaces/in/it
/this/had spaces/and/list/of/files*... (6 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
OS: RHEL 5.8
shell: bash 3.2.25
Directory /home/guest/ contains these files:
file a
file b
file c
fileD
fileE
fileF
testFile.txt
I'm trying to find the syntax to run ls -ltr against this list of files that is contained within a text file, testFile.txt.
The file testFile.txt has... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings.
I am trying to do a script that will do some file copying for me. Unfortunately I have spaces in the directory names (which I cannot change) and the result is someone hard to achieve in shell scripts. I have searched everywhere on the web but does not manage to find the answer to... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a problem mounting images because of the spaces in the filenames. Does anyone know how to rename files by removing the spaces with the find command?
find Desktop/$dir -name "*.dmg" -print -exec ??? (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey there, this is my first post and I'll try to explain my situation as best I can.Here is a sample of the input file:
ADO Sample.h,v ADO Sample 2010-05-21 lyonsb /repository/patents/TSCommon/OpenSource/Dundass/ug6mfc/DataSources/Ado/ADO Sample
ADO SampleDoc.h,v ADO SampleDoc 2010-05-21... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi experts,
I have the following data: I want the last filed in the output.
How to print the last field , It contains the file names and few filenames with white spaces .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-26 16:57 file1 2space_File.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-04-26... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I hope someone will be able to resolve this little teaser!
I am running a script
for file in `ls directory`
do
echo "$file"
...other code here....
done
this works fine unless we receive a file with a name which has a space in it
ie
"filena me"
(I know its not good... (8 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to write a perl script that should do a search recursively in all the '*.txt' files for the string "ALL -Tcb" and should print only the file names that do not contain this string. (21 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I see similar problems in past threads but so far no answers have worked for me. I am trying to write a script which parses a txt file that contains one filename per line, then finds those files on the local disk and copies them to a specified directory.
What I have:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: naviztirf
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a problem with the script below
#!/bin/sh
for vo in `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex "^\./*$"`
do
ls -l "$vo"
some other commands
done
It works fine until `find ...` returns files with spaces. I've tryed to change IFS but haven't succeed
Any solutions? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hitori
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