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Linux listing files between two date without touch command

I need a command which will list the files between given date and time (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS - format) in to a text file. I don want to use touch command as its creating permission issue. I am new to this ...
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How to move all files with a certain file extension from subdirectories to a single directory

I have a directory that contains many subdirectories. The subdirectories contain lots of types of files with different file extensions. I want to move (not copy) all the files of one type into a new ...
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Standard I/O File Descriptors

I am new to Shell SCripting I code this $ ls -l 1> stdout.txt and I get the output as desired, 1> stdout.txt redirects the output from standard output to the file stdout.txt. I don't ...
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File inventories and logrotation

I want to collect a huge amount of data files on my actual netapp storage with the command file - f /path... > logfile.txt. Through the huge data amount, the size of the logfile will be critical. ...
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How to strip directory structure with command line (or script)

I have a large collection of files packed into a two-level directory structure with many, many, many folders. In other words, I have a folder with a great many subfolders in it. There are no ...
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How to write file into another

I have an empty file (only zeroes are in it) of size 9,0KB and I need to write another file (with size 1,1KB) to it, but the first file must not lose its size or the rest of its contents. So if the ...
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Using GNU Parallel With Split

I'm loading a pretty gigantic file to a postgresql database. To do this I first use split in the file to get smaller files (30Gb each) and then I load each smaller file to the database using GNU ...
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How to find what device a file is on (and use that in a script)?

I want to find out what device my file is on so that I can use it in a script. I can get this far: $ df . Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s2 498438976 ...
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Matching two files for similar first line

I have 2 set of files. File one contains ID's ex: 1111 2222 6666 3333 4444 File two contains ID and username: 1873 Neil 1111 Roger 7632 Tim 3333 Oscar 8723 Greg 4444 Roy 6666 Patrick I want to ...
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Get the complement of the result of an ls command

Let's say I have a directory with multiple files, all of which are either binary files (files with no declared extensions) and source files (.c extension). I do this: $ ls and get: README.md ...
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Unix - how to fetch files based on the part of a filename that is date

Say I have files say like AA_XX_20111208 AA_XX_20111207 AA_XX_20111206 AA_XX_20111205 AA_XX_20111204 AA_XX_20111203 So using the date part, how can i fetch previous 2 month files ? For e.g. this ...
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Outputting last modification date to another file?

I'm trying to read the number of lines in a file, and the last modification date of that file (e.g. if it was last modified Jan 18, 2013, it should output 2013-01-18), then append the data to the ...
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Copy Sequential Files

I have 12 files named dmp_000, dmp_001, etc, all the way to dmp_011. I would like to copy all of them to rdmp_000, rdmp_001, and so on, sequentially so the numbered files coincide. There must be an ...
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Unsure about the behaviour of my script when writing to log file

I have a very simple ksh script and at certain points I want to write to a log file. I use the following commands in two places... print "Directory listing 1:\n" > ${LogFile} ll >> ...
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Check whether files in a file list exist in a certain directory

The runtime arguments are as follows: $1 is the path to the file containing the list of files $2 is the path to the directory containing the files What I want to do is check that each file listed in ...
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Sort the output of find before piping to openssh

I'm using this command to recursively generate a SHA-512 hash for each file in a directory hierarchy: find . -type f -exec openssl sha512 {} \; I'd like to sort the files in lexicographical order ...
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Cent OS 6.3 Hidden files in shell

I need help, I want to be able to check whether a file is hidden or not in Cent OS 6.3. These are often referred to as (dot) files but I can clearly see Cent OS 6.3 handling these by appending a ...
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How to add a string of numbers to multiple text files in a directory?

file.txt file2.txt file3.txt I want to add 99999 to the begining of the all the file names without changing anything else in the file name in solaris 10.
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Run a command on all the files in a directory tree and put the output into a variable

I want to run this bash command : #!/bin/bash rep="*" for f in `ls -R`$rep; do d='git log '$f'| wc -l' c=$d echo $c done how to excute a command git log myFile | wc -l from bash ? ps : this ...
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List files created on Sundays

How do I list/find all the files created on Sundays or Mondays? How do I use the date parameter to display them? Something like : ls -f date + %a or find -type f | date +%A or find -type f ...
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ls: Do not show directories that match same pattern in wildcard searches, only files

Supposing I have something like the following, a typical business PC situation: drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 3 Oct 3 16:40 invoices2009 drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 4 Oct 3 16:40 ...
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List only regular files (but not directories) in current directory

I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find find . ...
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List X random files from a directory

Is there a way to list a set of say, 30 random files from a directory using standard Linux commands? (in zsh) The top answer described here does not work for me (sort does not recognize the option ...
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Create a new link to access all files and folders

I get stuck to create a shell script for a new link something like that link linkPathName orginalPathName I want to create a link between a new link and original path; however, both can access ...
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id3v2 used recursively at command line?

Trying to get my id3 tags cleaned up and am loving id3v2 on the command line -- but I've been using it only with a *.mp3 wildcard and want to explore if there's a way to use it recursively so I can ...
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shell script to read from multiple files in parallel

I need to write a script that runs parallel and looks for a string in multiple files. I tried a lot of options but they slow down the speed of my processor.
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How to run a command against all the files of particular types on a filesystem?

I've just recovered tons of files (distributed in a complex directory structure, having very long names, using Unicode symbols, spaces etc in names) from a damaged hard drive. Now I'd like to verify ...
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Can files be created with permissions set on the command line?

When creating directories, mkdir -m <mode> <dir> provides for creating one or more directories with the given mode/permissions set (atomically). Is there an equivalent for creating files, ...
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Cron to delete particular file(s) from a specific directory

I am new to shell scripting. I am trying to write a cron for unix shell that will delete some files, say after 2 weeks or after 1 month from a specific directory. /somedir1/somedir2/ if(somedir2) ...
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Remove 50GB oldest files in busybox when used capacity reaches 95%

Ok i have requested a code here but initial i didn't ask to make it busybox compatible. My bad. I'm new to linux and coding. The code needs to do the following: Delete 50GB of oldest data (dir ...
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How to remove only the content of directories?

I'm in a folder: /var/myfolder. Inside there are some other folders like: /var/myfolder/A/ /var/myfolder/B/ `/var/myfolder/C/ etc. Inside each there are some files with random names. How do I ...
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open a file using CDPATH and symlink

To quickly move around, I added a path to CDPATH that contains symlinks to different locations. I did this by adding the following line to .bashrc: export CDPATH=~/symlinks When working with ...
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Search for a string in files recursively in BusyBox 1.0? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to grep a text recursively on BusyBox 1.0? How can I search for a string in a file recursively in BusyBox 1.0 if find and grep are not available ? (I want to telnet ...
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How can I dynamically switch the output destination of a script or command?

I ran a shell command the other day which produced more output than expected. It was writing to a file on a filesystem with very little available space and could have filled the filesystem. The ...
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rename files maching specific mtime value within directory

I use simple set of shell commands to in order to create mysqldumps daily. The script is called by cron daemon. It looks like: presentdate="`date +%d-%m-%Y_%H:%M.%S`" basedir="/var/db_my_backup" ...
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How can I substitute into this shell command?

I have a find command that I want to substitute a list of GIDs into. Here's the command: find / -follow \( -group 39 -o -acl_group 39 \) -exec ls -ln {} \; 2> $HOME/error.39.log 1> ...
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How to include program which only works with in/out files into a pipeline?

I need to process image with several tools in a pipeline tool1 | tool2 | tool3 | .... It appeared though that one of the tools isn't designed to work in a pipeline and only works in format of ...
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Magic file that redirects to standard output

Is there a magic file name that gives the following effect? $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo1 && cat /tmp/fifo1 & $ foo --log-file /tmp/fifo # now I can see the log as the program runs I want ...
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Regarding separate a single file into multiple files according to line separation

Currently, I have a plain text file, A, such as lowest priority very high significance. outstanding very novel In this file, every line contains a sentence. I want to separate this file into ...
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ls taking long time in small directory

Running Ubuntu, I open a terminal and do sudo bash cd / ls | head -n 1000 And predictably about 20 directories are returned. However, if I do an ls, and don't pipe it into anything, the ls just ...
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How to execute one command on all files within a folder

Saying, I have this tree and I want to execute ruby on all scripts within the folder. How could I archive through one line of command. ./ ../ rb-script/ sample1.rb sample2.rb
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How do I output a count of all files with “tty” in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices

I am having trouble knowing how to output a count of all files with “tty” in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices.
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process files in a directory as they appear [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to run a command when a directory's contents are updated? I'm trying to write a simple etl process that would look for files in a directory each minute, and if ...
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How to insert the content of a file into another file (if regexp) in shell/perl

File1 Contents: line1-file1 "1" line2-file1 "2" line3-file1 "3" line4-file1 "4" File2 Contents: line1-file2 "25" line2-file2 "24" Pointer-file2 "23" ...
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How to add/replace only modified/updated files recursively for some 2 folders?

So I currently do stuff like: rm -rf ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost mkdir ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost cp -r ../../../$BOOST_ROOT_DIR/$BOOST_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib/* ...
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How do I create a structured list of all the files and directories under a particular directory (recursively)?

I need to have an "image" of a file system without actual contents of the files - just all the names and the structure, so that I can read the file and know what files were stored there and how were ...
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What's the best way to count the number of files in a directory?

If parsing the output of ls is dangerous because it can break on some funky characters (spaces, \n, ... ), what's the best way to know the number of files in a directory? I usualy rely on find to ...
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Access the last file (alphabetically) in a directory

I'm trying to open a file with vim from the command line, the file is in a directory filled with automatically generated files that are prepended with a time stamp. Since I don't know the time stamps ...
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Script to monitor folder for new files?

How do I detect new files in a folder with a bash script? I would like to process the files as soon as they are created in the folder. Is this possible to do so or do I have to schedule a script with ...
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Are two files hardlinked?

How can I tell if two files are hard-linked from the command line? e.g. something link this: $ ls fileA fileB fileC $ is-hardlinked fileA fileB yes $ is-hardlinked fileA fileC no

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