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Create a file in all sub-directories if it does not exist
Thank you for the timely reply. Can anyone of you please direct me to an appropriate tutorial to learn it myself. I was also trying this ls -ltr /*.arch* | wc -l --> returns number of sub-dir have file starting with ".arch" how do I find the number of sub-dir that do not have the file. I tried...- himalay
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Create a file in all sub-directories if it does not exist
Hello everyone, I need to make a task automated using scripting. I need to search for a file named ".archlock" in all the subdirectories of a directory up to infinite level and then create a file if it does not exist. until now, I did the following. 1. ls -l|grep ^d | wc -l --> returns...- himalay
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
