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What does this part mean in find command with -exec \{\}? [duplicate]
I have this command (KSH) find <path> -regextype posix-extended -type f -regex '.*/txt' -exec ls -l --full-time \{\} \; | sort -bnr So, I'm reading and deciphering the command above so far what ...
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Delete all other undefined directories
I need to create a purge script to remove any foreign directories from a specific list of directories. My idee was to do something like this : #!/bin/ksh find /data/${USER}/SAS/ -type d ! -name '...
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Excluding specific folders while copying stuffs from one directory to another
I have to copy contents of some code from one folder called aim-db-dir to another called aim-db-dir_nosvn. aim-db-dir contains .svn folders in all the directories (and subdirectories) and these .svn ...
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Remove old files in a directory except files present in an exception file
I am writing a shell script to delete old files (older than 60 days) in a directory except few files and these file names are maintained in an exception file present in another directory. I know the ...
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Executing user defined function in a find -exec call
I'm on Solaris 10 and I have tested the following with ksh (88), bash (3.00) and zsh (4.2.1). The following code doesn't yield any result: function foo { echo "Hello World" } find somedir -exec ...
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