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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
when I run the following command in AIX (bash),
find ./*
I get the following error.
find: bad status-- ./*
Thats becasuse, its an empty directory. The same works, when there the directory is not empty. Even though the find deesnt have to rerun any result.
My full find command would look... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: deepakwins
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello All,
I am trying to capture the exit status of find command and want to delete the files only when it is successful. But it is always returning me as success even if the pattern of that file doesn't exist in the current directory. please help, checked manual page but couldn't able to figure... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ariean
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am adding a line in my shell scripts to delete all the old directory with the below command. On running this command it is coming out with the message
find: incomplete statement
find /ersdg3/ERS/ERS_INPUT_LOGS/RIO/rio_archive -type d -mtime +47 -exec rm -rf {}
What is wrong or... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: guddu_12
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
would like to remove the post (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: vk39221
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
Want to log the output of command & check the exit status to find whether it succeeded or failed.
> ls abc
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
1
> ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
0
Tee commands changes my exit status to be always... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: vibhor_agarwali
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
We check the printer status at the command line by giving the following command and the system gives an output;
lpstat -prn001_hp4000n
When I give the same command in a UNIX script the system gives an error while running the script as "lpstat: not found".
Please let me know... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jmathew99
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7. Linux
Hi,
When I run the command acroread it is giving error
ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.
When I look at /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/ an exicutable file named acroread is there. When i run ./acroread from that directory it is working . What can i do so that I can give... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: iamjayanth
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In my shell script when I am using mv command using shell variables it is giving me error of syntax. Following is the shell script:
file_edifice="*.txt"
fquote="'"
fdquote=\"
for file in $file_edifice
do
file_name=$fquote$file$fquote
tofile_name=`date... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gammit
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9. Solaris
While installing amanda server,i got the following error
## checking lex output file root... configure: error: cannot find output from flex; giving up.
when i execute
# which lex
i got /usr/ccs/bin/lex
setting the pathg does not work too
After this i tried intalling flex in my /opt... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: bullet350
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Currently iam working on solaris environment,
Iam using find command to get list of all files between any two given dates. But the find command is not listing files accord. to timestamp. I tried using -exec option as -exec ls -ltr {} \;
Still the files are not listed according to timestamp..... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: thanuman
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