Unix File Management

Most Oracle DBA's are responsible for managing Oracle data files in the database servers. Here we will discuss some of the routine UNIX file system management tasks. see also - UNDERSTANDING UNIX FILE PERMISSIONS
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1. List recently touched files -  $ls -alt

2. List recently changed files -  $ls -alc |tail

3. Delete unchanged/obsolete arch files older than 5 days  - $find $ORACLE_BASE/arch/arch*.arc -ctime +5  -exec rm {} \;

4. Display file sizes in 512-byte blocks - $du -s * |sort -n|tail or $du -sh * |sort -n|tail

5. Locate files that contains certain strings - $find . -print|xargs grep -i v\$session

6. Find recently created files - $find . -mtime -1 -print (displays files created during the past day)

7. Find files with very large size - $find . -size +50000 -print (displays all files greater than 50000 bytes)

8. Delete files older than a week or certain period. - $find . -mtime +7 -exec rm {}  \; (remove all files more than 7 days old)

9. Delete old trace,log,dump,audit files-  Same as above except you need to start from ADR home.
$find /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/testdb/DB11G/ -name "*.trc" -mtime +7 -exec rm {}  \;

10. Allocate an empty files - $touch test.txt

11.Change default file permissions - $umask 644

12. Change file ownership - $chown oracle:oinstall *.dmp

13.Change file permissions - $chmod 755 *.sql

14. Tar and UNTAR files -$tar -cvf new.tar *.sql (TAR) $tar -xvf new.tar (UNTAR)

15. SCP files from one server to another server - $ scp *.dmp user@host_name:/backup/. (push) $scl user@host_name:/backup/*.dmp /backup/. (pull) . To copy a directory, use the -r (recursive) option. Example: $scp -r mydir xyz@sdcc7:mydir

16. gzip and gunzip files: $gzip *.dmp $gunzip *.zip

17. WINSCP - Copy files from windows to Unix and vice versa.

18. umask  $umask 755




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