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Pipe null terminated file paths twice to same output, but second time sorted by basename
So, let's say I have a script that uses find to print paths with null-terminated filenames.
I also want to print another version of the output where each path is sorted by its basename. I want to ...
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Detect leaf directories in Perl
For a Perl script I'm working on, I'm looking for a fast and reliable way to find all subdirectories (transitively) of a given directory which are leaves, i.e. those not having any subdirectories of ...
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while read line find – faster with perl?
I have a text file with three columns separated by tab and I read the third column line by line to find all files in a directory which have this in the name.
Since it is a file with up to 1000 entries,...
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Delete the oldest files in folder if combined size of folder is more than 10G
The following syntax will remove the files under hive folder:
/usr/bin/find /var/log/hive -type f -print -delete
I am trying to do the following:
Remove the oldest files under /var/log/hive only if ...
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Can I unlink in perl with a list from a unix find command?
Trying to delete thousands of files on multiple servers.
rm will not work.
Wrote a generic script to run from cron to delete on a regular basis:
...
/bin/perl -e 'unlink ( <`find ${DIRECTORY} -...
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Linux red hat + replace PATH or word on scripts
Under folder:
/var/userTN/applo folder
I have around ~100 shell scripts that include the following PATH:
GLOBAL_PATH=/export/pop/PLW5
I want to replace the PATH on all the scripts under folder:
/...
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Can I use the find command to pass arguments to perl?
I have a perl script
$ cat ~/script.pl
sub main {
my ($file) = @_;
<STUFF>
}
}
foreach (@ARGV) {
main($_);
}
I want to execute ~/script.pl on every .txt file under the ...
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is it possible to search for files that have a special Linux file attribute?
is it possible to search file in the linux OS that have particular file attribute as this: ---S--l---
---S--l--- 1 root root 0 Mar 1004:25/opt/csTuner/iba/wys/tuer_lolk
What is S in ...
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Find files less than 1 week old with match TODO in files
My unsuccessful proposal
find ./ -newerct '1 week ago' -print | grep TODO
No output although should be.
Files are text files like
Lorem
% TODO check this out
Lorem ipsun
How can you find less ...
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find files not matching list of filename patterns
I find myself needing to find and identify extraneous files (out of about 900K files on a 2T drive). There are lots of files that I want to keep, and I have filename patterns for these known good ...
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Rename files and directories with a special characters on solaris machines
The target of the following code ( commands ) is to rename files/directories and also support files/directories with a special characters as "@" or "." etc
those commands are run fine on Linux ...
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How to use the find command in Perl script?
Could someone tell me why the find command always go to the root directory but not the directory that is specified in $srceDir?
my $srceDir = "/mnt/SDrive/SV/Capture Data/";
my $find_cmd = 'find $...
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Error trying to call find from perl
use warnings;
use File::Find;
my $srceDir = "//mnt/Share_Drive/Verizon PM&T/Capture Files/";
opendir(DIR, $srceDir) or die "Can't open $srceDir: $!";
my @files = (find -type f -newermt "12 Feb ...
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find command for the newest 500 files in a directory tree and also be POSIX compliant
I am looking for a single line shell script or unix command to find the newest 500 files in a directory. Major constraints are it should be POSIX complaint and the directory can have tons of files.
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Find files with same name but different content?
I want to generate a list of files that have:
Same name
Different content
in a directory (including all children directories and content).
How to do? Bash, perl, anything is fine.
So, two files ...
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